madmanperez

With the engine in that condition I cannot afford to fix nor replace. Entire car is up for grabs. Located in Central Florida Ocklawaha Florida 32179. Yes that's spelled right. you can reach out to me directly at madmanperez@gmail.com asking price 3k, willing to negotiate car was fully functional and road worthy until a unfortunate series of events.

Lucas' was easy to find and resolved/fixed the issue. No more sticking on squeaky clean windshield. Thanks to all

What Lube do you guys use???

Thanks for all the info. I always thought I had a good ground but when I pulled the motor I realized it wasn't as good (read clean). Used a dremal (spelling?) and polished the pieces real good. put it back together and wala, all is working as it should, but (and there's always a but) my windshield is squeaky clean or there is still a problem. when I spray the windshield the wipers work perfectly its when the windshield no longer has any water or moisture the wipers drag and stop (read stuck). As soon as I spray they free up. I mean its not a big deal, I mean, who uses wipers when your not cleaning or raining right? Again I want to say thanks, this what I like about this site, there's always some one or more than one who has input leading to a solution or the solution itself.

This has been a long running problem. Before the site went down I had read a post about this situation and the poster basically said pull the motor clean out 30+ year old grease slather dielectric grease and it should be all good. Now some history. They wipers (a long time ago) started doing an incomplete sweeps during interment setting, including no park (no difference speed sensitive or not) as the car heated up the sweep got better until after about 10min the sweep was back to normal. During that incomplete situation regular low or high speed did the same with no park., again when the car warmed up it got better. Fast forward to today, pulled the motor, cleaned out the gunk (holy sh%t what a ton or crap). loaded in the dielectric grease, closed it all up re-installed and boom (no real sound). The wipers now run up and stop (engine not warmed up) not returning to park. So I'm guessing I missed something. I can't find the original post. I'm hoping you guys and girls have some helpful information TIA

thanks a bunch

If its not one thing its another. The main fusible link has broken its connector on the hot side. It snapped off the connection not burned off. I'm assuming that a new end can be crimped on but the tab it connects to seems to be bigger than what i'd call standard. Anyone know what the size of the connector is, or who might be selling the red fusible link? TIA

loose wasn't the case. A long time ago I added a bus bar to reduce the number of wires running off the battery. Each line was fused, so in a sense it was an auxiliary fuse box. Never bothered to look at it, so when I figured I needed to run a fresh wire and replace my dedicated 12v feed to the tac unit, there it was, a glaring red light showing a blown fuse. Ugh! after all this time and pulling my hair out (not that I have that much left) I replaced the fuse and tada its all working Thanks to everyone who chimed in, I really apricate all the feedback.

I recently got my rears 225/50 16s at Pepboys seems like they were able to get just about any size.

Update: Took the car out for a short errand and low and behold I had windows and door locks. A real wt.... moment. Ran around a bit on my errand got home rolled up the windows and boom (no real sound) without any warning suddenly no more windows and door locks. Another wt.... moment. Really what the hell. I know intermittent issues are very hard to track down. But I've done nothing since the sanding down of the mounting screw holes in hopes of creating a better ground. I swear it seems like car is possessed.

Don't have that level of skill with electronics

Stupid error on my part. No longer need to replace. I have an '87 Starion ESI-R and swapped out the ECU with an '88 some years ago. Having issues with my '87 TAC so it's probably time to replace with an '88 to match the ECU. Anybody have one for sale? If so, Please PM me with price and shipping. TIA

I could use the MAS I don't have many things to swap happy to pay shipping

Happen to have the tac unit, the piece that's under the driver's seat running an '88 ECU and I believe the '87 TAC has gone belly up.

Any other ideas, I'm at a loss at this point

Feb. '87

Removed the seat to check the grounding points all seem good scratched them up to bare metal just to be sure. The only thing I noticed was that when the car is running I see 12v+ at the powerline/connector on the tac unit. when the car is off it's showing 10v~ at the same point. Basically when all is hooked up still no auto-locks, windows etc. 😟🤬

I'l have to look at that. Model yr. good question the only info I have on model yr it the assembled date on the body itself. No documentation of any kind when it was purchased. '87 assembled to makes it '87 model yr. to me. If it actually an '88 I've been looking for the wrong parts maybe, Don't know the differences between the '87 and '88 models. I owned an '86 back in '86 had to give it up due to ins. issues back in the day in NJ Only drawn back to Starions after a misleading discussion with the missus (won't get into that) Thanks again, I'll post hear with any result or lack thereof

First thing I checked was power to the tac unit. Since that was the failure so many years ago. There is 12v running to the tac unit. At this point I remember reading something about a condition that signals a tac failure. The increased battery drain. In other words a dead battery after the car is left sitting for several weeks. The car sits a lot in recent months due to what has become a very hectic life. I don't get to run her as often as I used to. I found more than once that even a new battery would not last and be dead after a couple of months. Maybe I'm remembering wrong. As a precaution I've been disconnecting the battery after every use. I still have some other small jobs to do but getting the windows and door lock working are at the forefront.

Finally got around to checking the fusible links. (Very hectic life right now). They all check out fine all solid connections, good continuity, voltage present across all links. So effectively, Still, no windows, no speed sensitive wipers, no auto locks. All cabin fuses good. Back to square one. Fsm points to TAC unit when trouble shooting these systems. Am I missing something, something I haven't checked? I'm at a loss, that's why I reach out to you guys (no meant to be sarcastic) I always appreciate/need the feedback. Thanks for everyone's help

The one place (thing)I didn't check. I'll look in the FSM to see which might be responsible. They all look good the last time I looked (quite a few yrs ago) was checking for voltage on a different issue. Didn't think one would go on such a small draw. But gonna check any way ya never know until you look

Ok, the last time (about 6yrs ago, I lost the use of Auto locks, windows and speed sensitive wipers. The solution was the Tac unit under the driver's seat was not getting any power (12v.). New power line was run, Problem solved. Fast foward and the same loss of function have appeared again. So what to do? Check for a loss of power and the Tac unit, No loss of power (12v)? Check all fuses, all good? Head lights work (including Hi-beams) Pop-up functions. Flashers work. Now I know all this have associated relays. But I don't know what can cause a failure of those systems other than the Tac unit. Do I presume the Tac has failed completely, or is there a different issue here? Thank in advance

Thank you all. The injectors were in their proper locations with the correct wire. The fix was a new set of O-rings. When I removed the top hat I found the injectors were loose. Anew set of O-rings allowed the injectors to fit snugly in the their respective positions. That and a new Battery have my little girl back on the road.

To remove the defroster and dimmer switch are one unit I had to push it out from behind.my defroster light doesn't light either, but I believe it's due to my rear defroster being busted. Accident happened about 18 months ago and the rear window to a hit. didn't shatter but definitely took a hit. as far as the lights make sure to check all related relays. I had a hell of time tracking down fuses and relays when I first my my Starion. It was fun (not) crusie control has been a pain in the arse for me. I replaced just about everything and so far nothing, check the stalk switch the FSM (don't remember the page #) has a break down of how the switch contacts connected at each position of the switch. Check for continuity for those switch positions if they all check out that will be one more thing to check off the list.

It's been a while since my last login, Had to completely wipe and re-install the OS to Clear up some strange issues something was corrupted, all good now. Back to the car, Turbo is not stock but the wastegate actuator is one port. The are no Cats. in the exhaust. 2.5 or 3 inch pipe. I only thought I was making a little more boost because at on point I had tried a different wastegate actuator (thinking I could make a little more power) and I found the car was starting to detonate that stopped when i reinstalled the stock wastegate actuator. (that was a while back, like two years ago.) At one point I had a mechanical boost gauge (don't remember the brand) it was tied into the vacuum lines on the lower part of the intake. The installation of it required cutting into the printed circuit plastic piece on the back of the cluster. It help me when I was tinkering with the wastegate. That's why I thought at one point I was making more than 7lbs of boost back to stock on the gauges. That's a bit more of the history of my baby. The weather has been so wonky the car's been sitting for a while. The other day I saw the worst possible situation, I wasp crawled into the gap between the headlight and hood. I'm almost afraid to pop the hood. i need to in order to start the car with my battery box since the cars been sitting for a while (about 4 months). In he middle of wasp season and starting hurricane season. Weather wise I had my internet service out 3 out the 4 weeks this month. Sorry for the rant. As always I appreciate all the info/feedback I receive from everyone