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Agreed, seriously cute!
Love the picture.
Wow, your huge Imperial looks kind of tiny compared with the Cayenne! ;)
How everything since the new isolators?? Your car most certainly had a battery hold down when it left the showroom.
When I ordered one for my car this is what I got. It fits the factory holes perfectly so I didn't question it. From Roseville Moparts.
Im going to have my isolators redone this winter. I got the info off this thread, thanks. At this point I think only one of mine is actually bad but mine makes some serious clunking noises under a little more than normal acceleration.
I have one of those on my eBay watch list.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mopar-66-67...Parts_Accessories&hash=item486153df6d&vxp=mtr
That's what you are searching for?
Those holes are blind you just have some seep from valve covers or someone oiled them when they put them in, on the drivers side head those face the fire wall with nothing in them.
Well then I apologize to any Chrysler engineers who were reading this and were offended.
As I mentioned, it was raining here yesterday, and I had lost enough time, so I simply used an umbrella.
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When reading up on the new starter, there was some discussion that it didn't fit, and would need to be trimmed. As it turns out that wasn't quite necessary. If you look at the bottom of the unit, you can see that the connection posts have a Z-shaped connector on them to move the connections and offset them from the body. It turns out that this is what contacts the block. These can be removed, and then the starter fits.
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The problem is that when you install the starter, those posts are on top of the starter, and not accessible from the side or bottom. So you need to do it by feel, and not lose any of the nuts into the crotch between the solenoid and the motor. Or if you do, you will need a mirror and a flexible magnet to fish them out (yes, I said 'them').
Since someone makes an offset for these already, someone should make another offset so that it will work on a 440. I'd pay a premium for one of those.
I got the starter in yesterday, but it was nearly 6:00 with the rain delay, and I had company waiting for me to cook, so I delayed until this morning.
When I got back to it, I could see that the cables were the starter cable, the charging wire, which peeled off after 6", and the solenoid wire which came into the bundle where the charging wire peeled off. To my inexperienced eye, it looked like the original wrapping. Fabric, with no real insulating properties (not that it needed it).
I cut the fabric casing and separated the cables.
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No real pictures of me trying to get the nuts in place, but it took about an hour and a half. The wires were just long enough to fit, because the posts were rotated a few inches further away from the original location. If I were making a cable from scratch, I'd add another 4" of length.
I don't know if you can really tell, but I held the camera and pointed up. This shows what you can see of the starter. That's the driver's torsion bar, transmission and linkage. You need to thread your arms up through there and get each nut on with one finger from each hand. Luckily there is room to swing a shorty wrench. Open end works on the starter, and box on the solenoid.
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View from the top: not getting at it that way, either.
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After that, I snapped the little plastic keepers back in place and cleaned up. Since both the starter and alternator work (alt just a little lazy at idle), I kept them, and marked them for future reference.
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I don't know why, but I did. Maybe someone from the board will be stranded in San Diego with a bad starter, all the parts stores will be closed, and a free used starter will get him back on the road.
Or I'll just end up throwing it away in 20 years.
But I decided to stop there, because I didn't really have time to get to the tie rods. As I mentioned before, I think I'll just pay to have it done, since it really shouldn't be put off any longer, and I just don't have time to do it before I take it to LA later this month.
One other thing I've read is that the starter sounds totally different than the original starter. It totally does. It's way faster. Most of the time, I can't believe the car is actually running it's so fast. However, it did not solve all of my hot-start reluctance.
If the car is hot, and has some time to sit, so the heat soaks in, it won't fire right off, and I need to open the throttle all the way, and it will catch. I suspect tuning at least partially related to my suspected vacuum leaks.
Oh, almost forgot. Now that the heat is off, I decided to turn on the air because it was muggy today. It doesn't work. F---! It worked when I bought the car. That was one of the things that convinced me to buy it. I'm hoping that it will be fixed when I start investigating vacuum, since I understand that vacuum drives a lot of the ATC stuff.
But that is a problem for another day.