techboy

I'm going off the top of my head, but if I remember correctly, one of the bolts on the wiper motor mounting plate should have a ground strap wire attached to it. Is it possible that's missing? It's late at night now, but I can check my car tomorrow and take a photo.

I used to use whatever, but then I read on here somewhere years ago that the Castrol High Mileage still has zinc in it as an ingredient - which I guess is good for older car engines. Not sure if that's still true or not. So, I've been using the Castrol ever since a member here shared that. My Starion is the only car I own I use it in. All my other cars and daily drivers I just use whatever oil is on sale at the time. Like Scott said, I change my oil beginning of spring every year no matter the mileage, so think as you change it regularly you're gonna be OK. Scott mentioned the oil pressure - I HIGHLY recommend installing an aftermarket gauge somewhere if you don't have one. Very early on after I restored my car I started getting weird oil pressure readings and ended ripping my car back apart to find a pretty shot oil pump. I was able to replace it and save my freshly built motor from being completely trashed.

And while I'm in here doing electrical things, I'm going swap out the cigarette lighter for a 12V auxiliary port. I just bought one like this at Autozone, it's pretty much the same wiring, so it's an easy swap if you decide you want to do this. Removed the cig lighter. At least I can charge a phone now.

Today I'm knocking out a quick little mod a read about on the site here. I'm going to wire the 2ndary fan to run hot all time, and still let the ECI control the Primary. This should help out a bit with under the hood temperatures. It's pretty easy to do. I made a wire about 2 feet long with a spade on one end and a ring connector on the other. Now we're just hook the ring connector to the negative of the battery. Now, under the car, we're going to disconnect the connector on the thermosensor (drivers side) and plug it instead into our new wire. Key on forward, and you can see the fan is already running. Nice.

Met up with Kev back in June at Carlisle Ford Nationals and he hooked me up with some back a-pillars. It doesn't show in pictures too much, but these tan ones are pretty dirty. The original tan headliner in this car got crushed when the tree fell on the roof, so I have a black headliner now (not sure I'll ever find a non-sunroof tan headliner). These black a-pillars are gonna look so much better against the black headliner, even with the tan leather interior.

Another summer mini-project. I installed this short shifter when I put the car back together. However, the position of it is a bit uncomfortable when driving, so we're gonna fix that today. Started by removing it and taking it COMPELTELY apart. Next up ... gonna torch this thing till it turns red and bend it. Now we just put this back together. That seems like it's gonna be much better.

I've got a long list of little summer mini-projects I want to get to this year. First up ... for some reason the rear lock on my hatch does not work. I decided to take it apart and send it to a locksmith. Unfortunately, he said it was frozen and not fixable. So, I tracked down another rear hatch mechanism from a junkyard and had a key made for it. I just have a separate key for the trunk now. Not a big deal IMO. Decided while I was having these trunk keys I would have an OEM key cut for the car as well. I scored one of these a while back and was waiting until the car was fully restored and running to have it cut. Love how this came out.

At some point in here in the very near future, I'd like to redo all the suspension, another thing I skipped over when I did the restoration. So, I swung by StarQuestResuce's place this June and picked up a spare set of front strut housings to send out for powder so I didn't have to deal with any downtime. Again, not sure when I'm gonna get around to this project, but just trying to have things ready to go when I get to it.

Picked up some other things over the winter months that I'm really excited about. Things that just make the car more "correct". Tracked down a set of Starion Floor mats. Had to pay up for these, but happy to have them. And, thanks to a tip from another member on here, I was able to snap an 88 Starion owners manual off eBay.

It's been a few weeks and everything is back. Time to reinstall. (I picked up an old TEP rear strut bar over the winter that also got powder, that'll wait to be installed till another day though) Here's a closer up of the powder. New sway bar links and sway bar bushings. I started with the rear. Then I moved on to the front. Looks super good, can't wait to feel how much of an improvement this will make with handling. 30 year old components were toast, this was long overdue. Here's where we sit with just a few more weeks till the weather turns.

It's dead of winter (Feb) here in PA, but I'm already starting to think about car show season. Next up, it's time to clean up the front and rear bars and replace all the worn out links that skipped over during the resto. Got the car up in the air to remove the old stuff. These links are toast. Rear sway bar out. Then I put the front up and repeated the process. I'm gonna get this all dropped off for powder now and hopefully get this on the road for this spring and summer.

Summer 2017 has almost ended, but there's one more thing I want to get done before it goes down for the winter. This car pretty much has an OEM exhaust on it, and while I want it to retain that OEM look, the old exhaust stuff needs to go, so I've been picking up aftermarket stuff here and there as I've found good deals. The top and bottom pcs are from Mookhee, and the DP I picked up from another member. The exhaust needs hangers added to it and I want the rear pipe to taper back into the OEM muffler so it looks original from behind. So, I dropped the car off at a local speed shop to do the work. Not much a farm out, but the job I did. Old exhaust system hanging under there.... So much better brand new. Much happier with this, and to the naked eye, no one knows.

Amazing. Great color combo inside and out as well. Wish I had the garage space for another one. I'd love to own this pc of history.

Glad you found some.

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