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Posted by primeredbeast89dropgt (Member # 10102) on :
 
Okae I don't know how to really explain this but ill try my best. Okae I have 89 gt vert and looking to get my whole car re-wired. What all would I need? Is this something I can do on my own or is it better to take to a shop? If a shop how much would something like this normally cost?

Thanks guys

Dre
 
Posted by 510Notch (Member # 9353) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by primeredbeast89dropgt:
Okae I don't know how to really explain this but ill try my best. Okae I have 89 gt vert and looking to get my whole car re-wired. What all would I need? Is this something I can do on my own or is it better to take to a shop? If a shop how much would something like this normally cost?

Thanks guys

Dre
why are you rewiring your car?
 
Posted by primeredbeast89dropgt (Member # 10102) on :
 
Well everything works right now I believe but I had a check engine light problem and I tried to get it check from several different places and they told me that my computer was tripn.. so I was thinking of replacing everything so I wouldn't have come across this again
 
Posted by bentley mobs a stang (Member # 11119) on :
 
I personally wouldn't jump straight to rewiring the whole car. There are so many variables that the fix could be very simple. For example, at my shop I've seen over and over a car with weak motor mounts causing a check engine light to come on. What was happening was when the motor was jumping around it was tugging on wires, causing an intermittent open circuit at the connector for a component. Plus odds are the shop checked for powers and grounds at ur pcm which leads them to believe your computer is trippin. U may not be getting a 5 volt ref that goes to a sensor for instance. Causing a lower voltage coming back to the signal channel for the pcm. A pcm takes about 15 minutes to change at most. I would start with a known good pcm and go from there like the shop suggested.
 
Posted by primeredbeast89dropgt (Member # 10102) on :
 
Okae any ideas on any good upgrade pcm for my 89 gt fox
 
Posted by bentley mobs a stang (Member # 11119) on :
 
Usually u just swap out the prom but if u want custom look into TwEECer
 
Posted by primeredbeast89dropgt (Member # 10102) on :
 
Appreciate that bro..
 
Posted by Blind (Member # 3052) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by primeredbeast89dropgt:
Well everything works right now I believe but I had a check engine light problem and I tried to get it check from several different places and they told me that my computer was tripn.. so I was thinking of replacing everything so I wouldn't have come across this again
typically scanners are not used for checking for MIL codes on an eec-iv foxbody, you just jump the diagnostic terminals and count the flashes of the check engine light and look up the codes.

http://www.my5oh.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=923
 
Posted by bentley mobs a stang (Member # 11119) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Blind:
quote:
Originally posted by primeredbeast89dropgt:
Well everything works right now I believe but I had a check engine light problem and I tried to get it check from several different places and they told me that my computer was tripn.. so I was thinking of replacing everything so I wouldn't have come across this again
typically scanners are not used for checking for MIL codes on an eec-iv foxbody, you just jump the diagnostic terminals and count the flashes of the check engine light and look up the codes.

http://www.my5oh.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=923
ive dont it that way, but at the shop i work at we have a ford scan tool called the NGS that can pull eec-iv codes, similar to a master tech for early GMs
 
Posted by LXjames (Member # 10791) on :
 
haha man i just learned all about this stuff last week and tonight at.. you guys gonna hate this but i learned it at wyotech lol. 5 volt reference was tonight and last week my teacher was talking about how he changed the pcm but forgot the prom for the new one and all this other bs but i guess im learning some stuff from this school
 
Posted by bentley mobs a stang (Member # 11119) on :
 
Lol nothin wrong with Wyotech other than the price haha. I learned my shit at chabot haha
 
Posted by JBeezy53 (Member # 3960) on :
 
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Originally posted by bentley mobs a stang:
Lol nothin wrong with Wyotech other than the price haha.
+1 Cost is too high for the return IMO...

I learned a lot just reading books and articles then getting out there and doing the work. But then again I'm not trying to do it for a living......
 
Posted by LXjames (Member # 10791) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by JBeezy53:
quote:
Originally posted by bentley mobs a stang:
Lol nothin wrong with Wyotech other than the price haha.
+1 Cost is too high for the return IMO...

I learned a lot just reading books and articles then getting out there and doing the work. But then again I'm not trying to do it for a living......
price is way to high. i signed up 1 month after i turned 18 which was last dec. im already halfway through the program and just did my second loan. price is high but the people i know now and MOST of the info ive learned is starting to prove itself valuable
 
Posted by JBeezy53 (Member # 3960) on :
 
Glad it's paying off for you. Hopefully you'll end up on tv like some of the other Wyotech grads working in some really nice shops. I just work for a federal program that pays for training for displaced workers and I see many of them go to Wyotech and have no job afterwards.
 
Posted by bentley mobs a stang (Member # 11119) on :
 
Stick with it at Wyotech. Apply yourself to the fullest. I know a lot of ppl who went to Wyotech and got very little out of it and other ppl from there who became great techs. All what u make of it. I feel bad for the guys tryna pay that huge loan off delivering parts for worldpac.
 
Posted by Blubyu87gt (Member # 9427) on :
 
You can shut off the C.E.L. with a QuarterHorse. Also you can pull codes easily too. But there are cheaper \ easier ways to do it.

If you're serious about doing a complete rewire then go with an ISIS multiplex system. A little on the expensive side but shit is it worth it.

[ July 26, 2011, 10:30 PM: Message edited by: Blubyu87gt ]
 




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