All I have left to do to the truck is button her up and paint some things!!! :)

 

sick

 

Awesome chris, congrats! Did you get all your speedo/tach stuff running right?

 

When do we get more pics???

 

Speedo is dead on, but I havent had a chance to mess with the TACH yet. I will someday lol

Ill take more pics when I get a chance to wash it. Maybe when I get that regulator in the mail then Ill take pics then. Ill also have some videos up so please just give it time. Im just enjoying the fact that I have my own vehicle back again

 

Um im having sorta a problem.. I went to check out the operation of my AC/heater controls and I cant seem to get it to work right. The heat WORKS, I havent charged my AC system yet so im not concerned about that just yet. I put the blower speed in ALL positions and it works in all 4 speeds, then I change the location that I want it to blow out but it doesnt change. It just constantly blows out the top part of my dash.. Is this part of my wiring or did I FUBAR my blower box in the engine bay lol Much help here would be great, thanks :)

 

Find the plastic vacuum hose to the A/C on the passenger side of the engine and repair or connect it. It goes to the vacuum reservoir first before going on to the A/C. Not sure on 2000 but I think the reservoir is in between the fender and inner fender. Later trucks it is under the air filter box.

 

The speedo is unaffected by the swap for 98~2000 Rangers because the VSS doesn't go through the PCM like the 2001+ Rangers. The tach fix is an easy ground wire change.

 

Cool Ill look at doing this... Something probably came disconnected while i was moving stuff around.. What is that ball looking thing thats under the intake? It has 2 lines coming out of it that runs just above the pass side fenderwell??

 

ohhh I forgot about that..you lucky sob. That is still the most anoying part of my swap. I have speed signal going to the computer for ****ing but I still have to find why I have nothing at my speedo yet. Its been like that for 2 years and I've gotten used to speed off rpms and sound.

 

Ive always wondered that.. darn ball thing is always hangin around when I have to pop the inner fender off there - was always curious as to what it was.. some sort of a'c condensor item perhaps?

 

Why dont you do what BOB did?

 

yea that ball is wierd ... I want to know what it is grrr

 

cause I'm lazy and he knows way more than me haha

 

That ball is the vacuum reservoir. One vac line comes from the intake manifold and the other goes off to the A/C controls and the Pulse Vacuum Hublock system (if equipped). When the A/C mode stays in defrost, it usually means that vacuum isn't getting to the A/C controls.

 

So when you gunna let me drop by and check this out. We've been talking about a meet for a while.

 

Im gonna have to check out the vac sources im wondering if i broke my ball, no pun intended.

And you can check it out anytime, Im still in the process of putting the truck back together right now so it looks good again. Give me another week and ill have this truck back together and everything working properly :)

 

If you need ANY help just lemme know. I work at a dealership if you need to come by on a weekend or something and use a lift or something.

 

I found out the problem. Well looks like my header melted the hard vac line going to the ball. So it pretty much melted it in half... How can I fix this? is there a nipple on the blower box area where I can just replace the whole line or do i need to figure out a way to add a connecter to it?

 

how about cutting the lines and throwing a larger vacuum hose over the lines and hold it on with a hose clamp?

 

If possible you should replace it with some hose, it would hold up to the heat better. or you'll have to replace it with stock and move it out of the way or wrap it in Aluminum foil or somthn

 

well yeah you SHOULD replace it. I assumed he was asking for another way... Though I would def agree to replace it.

 

Ill figure something out but maybe some zip ties and a bigger vac tube will do the trick

 

Just get some rubber vac tubing and put ovr it, as long as it isn't loose it wont leak.

 

this is what i shall do :) Thanks