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Joined: Aug 2016
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Just Getting Started
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Just Getting Started
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Thanks Steve
I'm just going to put it up for sale.
I'll take a bath on it but I can't afford, mentally or financially, to keep pouring endless time and money into this. From my own experience and from what I gather at the chat rooms the car is an overpriced problem child.
I'll miss it. But then I've been missing it now for twenty months.
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They do require a lot of time. I am putting my engine back in this weekend and the starter looks good and has worked fine this first 4500 miles but getting to it took some doing.
2019 M3W Sold and is now in Las Vegas enjoying the showgirls :-)
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Has a lot to Say!
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I believe the starter is just a MIata starter, not Ford. Anyone confirm this?
Dan
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I believe the starter is just a MIata starter, not Ford. Anyone confirm this? I had mine in my had yesterday and it say on the side plate, FoMoCo and in fine print under it the text says Mitsubishi.
2019 M3W Sold and is now in Las Vegas enjoying the showgirls :-)
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Just Getting Started
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Just Getting Started
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Well, I didn't sell it.
I did park it in a back corner of the shop with a sheet over it for several months.
It's starting fine now. It wasn't the valves.
To explain it is necessary to go back in this saga a couple of years: Back in 2019 the timing belt on my X-wedge succumbed to the local deset heat. When I sent off for a replacement S&S advised me that I should get a "Heat Adaptation Kit". This I ordered and when it arrived it contained: a new belt, which I needed, two new idler pulleys and a new tensioner, that I didn't, a new "improved" pinion gear, which S&S assured me I needed.
It was the "improved" pinion gear that caused my engine to fail in starting. At some point nine or ten months after it was installed it cracked and began to lose timing with the crankshaft. Why it continued to start when pushed and how it hauled me across the desert and over the Cascade mountains???
It did though and at Steve Huff's shop in Seatac the cracked gear was spotted. Of course no one had a replacement. We are talking about an X-wedge after all. So my wife braved the depths of my shop and guided by long distance phone found the old pinion I'd saved and shipped it overnight.
Need a new belt again. Can't find one.
Need a new pinion gear. Same.
It is more than good to have her back. Varoombah amigos!
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