±Recent Visitors

Recent Visitors to Com-Central!

±User Info-big


Welcome Anonymous

Nickname
Password

Membership:
Latest: HighestAce
New Today: 0
New Yesterday: 0
Overall: 6648

People Online:
Members: 0
Visitors: 427
Total: 427
Who Is Where:
 Visitors:
01: Home
02: Home
03: Community Forums
04: Home
05: Community Forums
06: Home
07: Community Forums
08: Downloads
09: News Archive
10: Downloads
11: Home
12: Community Forums
13: Member Screenshots
14: Community Forums
15: Home
16: Community Forums
17: Member Screenshots
18: Downloads
19: Photo Gallery
20: Statistics
21: Home
22: Community Forums
23: Home
24: Home
25: Photo Gallery
26: Member Screenshots
27: Community Forums
28: Downloads
29: Photo Gallery
30: Photo Gallery
31: Community Forums
32: Home
33: Community Forums
34: Home
35: Photo Gallery
36: Home
37: Community Forums
38: Photo Gallery
39: Home
40: Home
41: Home
42: Downloads
43: Photo Gallery
44: Community Forums
45: Home
46: Downloads
47: Home
48: Member Screenshots
49: Photo Gallery
50: Community Forums
51: News Archive
52: Member Screenshots
53: Photo Gallery
54: Home
55: Home
56: Community Forums
57: Home
58: Member Screenshots
59: Community Forums
60: Home
61: Photo Gallery
62: Downloads
63: Community Forums
64: Member Screenshots
65: Home
66: Photo Gallery
67: Photo Gallery
68: Home
69: Photo Gallery
70: Photo Gallery
71: Community Forums
72: Member Screenshots
73: Downloads
74: Home
75: Downloads
76: Home
77: Community Forums
78: Home
79: Downloads
80: Home
81: Community Forums
82: Community Forums
83: Home
84: Community Forums
85: Home
86: Member Screenshots
87: Community Forums
88: Home
89: Community Forums
90: Downloads
91: Community Forums
92: Member Screenshots
93: Community Forums
94: Community Forums
95: Community Forums
96: Community Forums
97: Community Forums
98: Community Forums
99: Community Forums
100: Community Forums
101: Community Forums
102: Home
103: Downloads
104: Home
105: Member Screenshots
106: Home
107: Member Screenshots
108: Photo Gallery
109: Home
110: Community Forums
111: Home
112: Community Forums
113: Photo Gallery
114: Statistics
115: Photo Gallery
116: Community Forums
117: Community Forums
118: Community Forums
119: News
120: News
121: Home
122: Photo Gallery
123: Community Forums
124: Home
125: Home
126: Photo Gallery
127: Photo Gallery
128: Photo Gallery
129: Photo Gallery
130: Photo Gallery
131: Downloads
132: Community Forums
133: Downloads
134: Community Forums
135: Photo Gallery
136: Home
137: Photo Gallery
138: News
139: Home
140: News
141: Community Forums
142: Home
143: Home
144: Community Forums
145: Photo Gallery
146: Photo Gallery
147: Statistics
148: Home
149: News Archive
150: Photo Gallery
151: Member Screenshots
152: Home
153: Member Screenshots
154: Downloads
155: Home
156: Member Screenshots
157: Photo Gallery
158: Downloads
159: Home
160: Home
161: Member Screenshots
162: Home
163: Community Forums
164: Community Forums
165: Community Forums
166: Home
167: Community Forums
168: Member Screenshots
169: Member Screenshots
170: Home
171: Downloads
172: Photo Gallery
173: Community Forums
174: Home
175: Home
176: Photo Gallery
177: Photo Gallery
178: Home
179: Photo Gallery
180: Community Forums
181: Community Forums
182: Photo Gallery
183: Community Forums
184: Home
185: Downloads
186: Home
187: Community Forums
188: Downloads
189: Community Forums
190: Home
191: News Archive
192: Member Screenshots
193: Home
194: Statistics
195: Downloads
196: Downloads
197: Community Forums
198: Downloads
199: Home
200: Home
201: Downloads
202: Downloads
203: Community Forums
204: Home
205: Photo Gallery
206: Photo Gallery
207: Home
208: Photo Gallery
209: Downloads
210: Community Forums
211: Photo Gallery
212: Member Screenshots
213: Home
214: Photo Gallery
215: Home
216: Photo Gallery
217: Statistics
218: Community Forums
219: Home
220: Photo Gallery
221: Community Forums
222: Community Forums
223: Community Forums
224: Community Forums
225: Photo Gallery
226: Home
227: Home
228: Home
229: Photo Gallery
230: Photo Gallery
231: Member Screenshots
232: Home
233: Downloads
234: Your Account
235: Community Forums
236: Home
237: Home
238: Downloads
239: Home
240: Home
241: Community Forums
242: Community Forums
243: Home
244: Photo Gallery
245: Photo Gallery
246: Community Forums
247: Community Forums
248: Home
249: Home
250: Community Forums
251: Community Forums
252: Photo Gallery
253: Community Forums
254: Member Screenshots
255: Photo Gallery
256: Photo Gallery
257: Photo Gallery
258: Photo Gallery
259: Downloads
260: Photo Gallery
261: Community Forums
262: Community Forums
263: Home
264: News Archive
265: Community Forums
266: Member Screenshots
267: Community Forums
268: Photo Gallery
269: Photo Gallery
270: Community Forums
271: Downloads
272: Home
273: Photo Gallery
274: Photo Gallery
275: Community Forums
276: Photo Gallery
277: Photo Gallery
278: Member Screenshots
279: Photo Gallery
280: Downloads
281: Home
282: Community Forums
283: Home
284: Home
285: Home
286: Home
287: Home
288: Downloads
289: Home
290: Community Forums
291: Community Forums
292: Home
293: Photo Gallery
294: Photo Gallery
295: Home
296: Home
297: Home
298: Home
299: Photo Gallery
300: Photo Gallery
301: Photo Gallery
302: Home
303: Photo Gallery
304: Photo Gallery
305: Home
306: Home
307: Home
308: Photo Gallery
309: Home
310: Home
311: Home
312: Home
313: Community Forums
314: Home
315: Community Forums
316: Community Forums
317: Photo Gallery
318: Downloads
319: Community Forums
320: Downloads
321: Home
322: Downloads
323: Home
324: Photo Gallery
325: Statistics
326: Community Forums
327: Community Forums
328: Home
329: Home
330: Home
331: Home
332: Community Forums
333: Community Forums
334: Community Forums
335: Photo Gallery
336: Community Forums
337: Community Forums
338: News
339: Photo Gallery
340: Photo Gallery
341: Downloads
342: Community Forums
343: Home
344: Community Forums
345: Home
346: Community Forums
347: Community Forums
348: Community Forums
349: News Archive
350: Home
351: Your Account
352: Home
353: Home
354: Home
355: Home
356: Photo Gallery
357: Photo Gallery
358: Community Forums
359: Community Forums
360: News
361: News Archive
362: Photo Gallery
363: Photo Gallery
364: Home
365: Community Forums
366: Statistics
367: Community Forums
368: Home
369: Community Forums
370: Member Screenshots
371: Community Forums
372: Home
373: Home
374: Home
375: Photo Gallery
376: Downloads
377: Downloads
378: Home
379: Member Screenshots
380: Member Screenshots
381: Home
382: Community Forums
383: Downloads
384: Community Forums
385: Member Screenshots
386: Home
387: Member Screenshots
388: Community Forums
389: Downloads
390: Home
391: Home
392: Photo Gallery
393: News
394: Community Forums
395: Home
396: Home
397: Community Forums
398: Home
399: Home
400: Home
401: Community Forums
402: Home
403: Home
404: Home
405: Home
406: Home
407: Photo Gallery
408: Downloads
409: Community Forums
410: Community Forums
411: Downloads
412: Community Forums
413: Photo Gallery
414: Community Forums
415: Community Forums
416: Photo Gallery
417: LinkToUs
418: Community Forums
419: Downloads
420: Home
421: Home
422: Home
423: Home
424: Photo Gallery
425: Community Forums
426: Photo Gallery
427: Community Forums

Staff Online:

No staff members are online!
Cougar update.
A public forum for the JG300 Wild Sau Gruppe!
Go to page 1, 2, 3  Next
Post new topic    Reply to topic    Printer Friendly Page     Forum Index ›  JG300 Wild Sau Gruppe Public Forum

View previous topic :: View next topic  
Author Message
JG300-fr8ycat
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Mar 13, 2005
Posts: 1530
Location: Los Angeles
PostPosted: Sun Jun 28, 2015 2:44 am
Post subject: Cougar update.

Have done a few things since the last update, now that I have an income again. Wink

New plug wires, distributor cap, coil, belts, hoses, HV oil pump, Motorcraft oil sending unit, water pump, thermostat, radiator, harmonic balancer, ditched the flex fan for the stock clutch fan and new carb.

While tearing it apart spun the old waterpump shaft and noticed a wobble. since replacing that and the Harmonic balancer (still had original with chunks of the hardened rubber missing) the harmonic vibration at cruise is gone and she runs smooth a silk. The Edelbrock Perfomer carb (w/mechanical secondaries) that I put on new about 20 years ago was giving me grief. I rebuilt it, tried changing jets/rods/springs, etc. but it wouldn't run the same way twice and was leaving black splatter on my garage floor. Started looking online and discovered ideally you want a carb with vacuum secondaries on an auto trans. so I dropped the money and replaced it with an Edelbrock Thunder series AVS. Man what a difference. No more black marks on the garage floor, when you get on it you can feel yourself being put back in the seat and I've gone from 10 MPG to 16.

Now it runs so good I've been driving it at least 3 days a week to work and want more but...The last 3 weeks (and the ten day forecast) in the beautiful Antelope valley where I work has been 100 plus degrees. The drives in the Morning are sweet, after work miserable. So the last thing on the list to do (AC) has become the next. Laughing have this ordered.

www.classicautoair.com...ngine.html

Also have some nice Cougar valve covers that I'll throw on when doing the AC.

Will post pics when the work begins.

_________________
Back to top
View user's profile MSN Messenger Photo Gallery
JG300-Stoopy
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 05, 2005
Posts: 5840
Location: Group W bench
PostPosted: Sun Jun 28, 2015 12:31 pm
Post subject: Re: Cougar update.

Awesome! The A/C compressor looks way lighter and more efficient than the ugly old stock anvil-like unit that pretty much visually dominates the engine compartment. That's gonna be sweet.

_________________
"Once your reputation is ruined, you can live quite freely."
Back to top
View user's profile Visit poster's website Photo Gallery
JG300-fr8ycat
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Mar 13, 2005
Posts: 1530
Location: Los Angeles
PostPosted: Thu Jul 02, 2015 2:18 am
Post subject: Re: Cougar update.

Here's one of the valve covers installed. Will be doing the other tomorrow after work and the new A/C parts will be this weekends project.


_________________


Last edited by JG300-fr8ycat on Mon Jul 06, 2015 2:49 am; edited 1 time in total
Back to top
View user's profile MSN Messenger Photo Gallery
JG300-Ascout
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 05, 2005
Posts: 6257
Location: Cyberspace
PostPosted: Sun Jul 05, 2015 1:49 am
Post subject: Re: Cougar update.

Suuuu-weeeeeet!

_________________
"All facts go to clearly prove that Shades is a thrice-cursed traitor & mentally deranged person steeped in inveterate enmity toward mankind"
Back to top
View user's profile Photo Gallery
JG300-Stoopy
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 05, 2005
Posts: 5840
Location: Group W bench
PostPosted: Sun Jul 05, 2015 12:24 pm
Post subject: Re: Cougar update.

Very nice!!!!!

Is that a fuel pressure gauge I see on the fuel line between the fuel filter and your new carb?

Looks like a happy 289!!!

_________________
"Once your reputation is ruined, you can live quite freely."
Back to top
View user's profile Visit poster's website Photo Gallery
JG300-Ascout
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 05, 2005
Posts: 6257
Location: Cyberspace
PostPosted: Mon Jul 06, 2015 12:03 am
Post subject: Re: Cougar update.

- JG300-Stoopy
Very nice!!!!!

Is that a fuel pressure gauge I see on the fuel line between the fuel filter and your new carb?

Looks like a happy 289!!!



...or 302. depending on how stock he went. 302 will give him a few more options.

_________________
"All facts go to clearly prove that Shades is a thrice-cursed traitor & mentally deranged person steeped in inveterate enmity toward mankind"
Back to top
View user's profile Photo Gallery
JG300-fr8ycat
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Mar 13, 2005
Posts: 1530
Location: Los Angeles
PostPosted: Mon Jul 06, 2015 2:43 am
Post subject: Re: Cougar update.

- JG300-Stoopy
Very nice!!!!!

Is that a fuel pressure gauge I see on the fuel line between the fuel filter and your new carb?

Looks like a happy 289!!!


That's a pressure regulator. Edelbrocks don't typically like anything above 6 PSI and even though I have a stock (repro) fuel pump that's supposed to be putting out 7, it's actually putting out 9.

It is the stock 302 which came with a 4bl carb and the edelbrock performer intake that I put on about 20 years ago. Couple weeks back I found a piece of paper that I wrote the mileage on when I had the motor rebuilt and discovered I only have about 13k miles on the motor. Laughing

_________________
Back to top
View user's profile MSN Messenger Photo Gallery
JG300-Ascout
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 05, 2005
Posts: 6257
Location: Cyberspace
PostPosted: Fri Jul 17, 2015 2:52 am
Post subject: Re: Cougar update.

- JG300-fr8ycat
- JG300-Stoopy
Very nice!!!!!

Is that a fuel pressure gauge I see on the fuel line between the fuel filter and your new carb?

Looks like a happy 289!!!


That's a pressure regulator. Edelbrocks don't typically like anything above 6 PSI and even though I have a stock (repro) fuel pump that's supposed to be putting out 7, it's actually putting out 9.

It is the stock 302 which came with a 4bl carb and the edelbrock performer intake that I put on about 20 years ago. Couple weeks back I found a piece of paper that I wrote the mileage on when I had the motor rebuilt and discovered I only have about 13k miles on the motor. Laughing


If I had one of these lying around, I'd give it to you, just because it's the right thing to do. But I don't, so I can't. Sad

www.cjponyparts.com/ho...HwoduyIOKQ

.

_________________
"All facts go to clearly prove that Shades is a thrice-cursed traitor & mentally deranged person steeped in inveterate enmity toward mankind"
Back to top
View user's profile Photo Gallery
JG300-fr8ycat
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Mar 13, 2005
Posts: 1530
Location: Los Angeles
PostPosted: Mon Jul 20, 2015 5:17 am
Post subject: Re: Cougar update.

Thanks for the offer but from past experience Holley has left a bad taste in my mouth Laughing

_________________
Back to top
View user's profile MSN Messenger Photo Gallery
JG300-fr8ycat
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Mar 13, 2005
Posts: 1530
Location: Los Angeles
PostPosted: Tue Jul 21, 2015 2:10 am
Post subject: Re: Cougar update.

Was starting to think he was full of it, just wanting to be Cool like the rest of us Cougar owners but my co-worker finally brought it in. So here's his 68 XR7.


_________________
Back to top
View user's profile MSN Messenger Photo Gallery
JG300-fr8ycat
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Mar 13, 2005
Posts: 1530
Location: Los Angeles
PostPosted: Tue Jul 21, 2015 2:32 am
Post subject: Re: Cougar update.

Currently my A/C upgrade has brought me back to this. Will explain soon.


_________________
Back to top
View user's profile MSN Messenger Photo Gallery
JG300-Stoopy
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 05, 2005
Posts: 5840
Location: Group W bench
PostPosted: Tue Jul 21, 2015 11:29 am
Post subject: Re: Cougar update.

Wild guess (probably wrong)... did the existing water pump housing not have the right mounting points for the A/C bracketry?

_________________
"Once your reputation is ruined, you can live quite freely."
Back to top
View user's profile Visit poster's website Photo Gallery
JG300-fr8ycat
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Mar 13, 2005
Posts: 1530
Location: Los Angeles
PostPosted: Wed Jul 22, 2015 1:46 am
Post subject: Re: Cougar update.

- JG300-Stoopy
Wild guess (probably wrong)... did the existing water pump housing not have the right mounting points for the A/C bracketry?


Very close and I'll give you full credit anyways Laughing

The mounting points were fine, it was the thickness of those points that were off. When I bought and installed that water pump a couple months back i ran into a problem with the power steering bracket rocking back and forth on one of the "spines" (for lack of a better term), the bracket wasn't sitting flush with the bolt holes on the water pump.



Mistake #1 "I'll make it fit", filed down the spine so it was out of the way and it all worked. Since I had removed all the A/C equipment under the hood I was none the wiser about what would happen when I tried to reinstall the A/C and since it was "last on the list", that would be a few years down the road. Rolling Eyes

Mistake #2, when I installed that water pump one of the attaching bolts was stripped. "Well, it was that way before and there were no leaks so I'll leave it". Now that I am having to redo it all it's something I should have fixed but didn't and now it's getting fixed, that's why the timing gear cover is removed.

Also discovered that I'm missing a fixed pulley. Know I had it in the past but removed it since the A/C wasn't working and have no idea what happened to it. Found an NOS place in NY, $65 and it's now in my garage. There's also washers (3 total) that go between the adjustable pulley bracket and the water pump that I don't have. AMK in VA has classic car bolt kits with the original style bolts and washers which should be arriving tomorrow.

_________________
Back to top
View user's profile MSN Messenger Photo Gallery
JG300-Ascout
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 05, 2005
Posts: 6257
Location: Cyberspace
PostPosted: Wed Jul 22, 2015 2:56 am
Post subject: Re: Cougar update.

- JG300-fr8ycat


Mistake #2, when I installed that water pump one of the attaching bolts was stripped. "Well, it was that way before and there were no leaks so I'll leave it". Now that I am having to redo it all it's something I should have fixed but didn't and now it's getting fixed, that's why the timing gear cover is removed.


HeliCoil or drill out and tap to larger thread?

_________________
"All facts go to clearly prove that Shades is a thrice-cursed traitor & mentally deranged person steeped in inveterate enmity toward mankind"
Back to top
View user's profile Photo Gallery
JG300-fr8ycat
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Mar 13, 2005
Posts: 1530
Location: Los Angeles
PostPosted: Thu Jul 23, 2015 1:25 am
Post subject: Re: Cougar update.

HeliCoil. Dropping it off at the machine shop tomorrow.

Bolts and washers came today. Will keep the originals even though they are well rusted but looks like the bolt that was in the stripped threads was incorrect, longer than what should have been the stock bolt.

_________________
Back to top
View user's profile MSN Messenger Photo Gallery
Display posts from previous:   
Post new topic    Reply to topic    Printer Friendly Page    Forum Index ›  JG300 Wild Sau Gruppe Public Forum
Page 1 of 3
All times are GMT - 6 Hours
Go to page 1, 2, 3  Next



Jump to:  


You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
You cannot attach files in this forum
You can download files in this forum