supercharged 5.0 true fire 98 explorer sport

[4pointslow]

Pcv

The hose from the air tube between the maf and throttle body that goes to the valve cover should be the fresh air intake side for the PCV system. There should be no PCV there. If it is there you could hollow it out.

 

[vroomzoomboom]

The hose from the air tube between the maf and throttle body that goes to the valve cover should be the fresh air intake side for the PCV system. There should be no PCV there. If it is there you could hollow it out.

noted

the main reason why i put it there was i had a hole in the valve cover, and intake tube that needed to be filled, so what better way to do it.

 

[Dono]

Just slightly off the no vacuum issue, but still on pcv and boost:

I'm working at different options for a pcv valve that seals completely under boost, and is the right size. The factory one for our trucks don't seal under boost.
Once I have it sorted out, I'll make sure I pick 2 up.

 

[ahodges]

The hose from the air tube between the maf and throttle body that goes to the valve cover should be the fresh air intake side for the PCV system. There should be no PCV there. If it is there you could hollow it out.

That is how I have mine set up.

 

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PCV backseated

Just slightly off the no vacuum issue, but still on pcv and boost:

I'm working at different options for a pcv valve that seals completely under boost, and is the right size. The factory one for our trucks don't seal under boost.
Once I have it sorted out, I'll make sure I pick 2 up.

In the older days, the PCV was supposed to back seat if there was a backfire in the intake manifold, that would keep pressure from entering the crankcase.
I have not personally checked my pcv valve off the vehicle to see if it did back seat and close all the way.

Either way I have no problems with excessive crankcase pressure during boost. No gaskets blowing out or oil being ejected.
Then again the fresh air intake side of the PCV flows the opposite direction if crankcase pressure is excessive. Still I do not have excess amounts of oil being blown back into the air intake tube either.

 

[4pointslow]

Pcv

noted

the main reason why i put it there was i had a hole in the valve cover, and intake tube that needed to be filled, so what better way to do it.

Gut that sucker and the PCV system should work well.
Nice job on hiding that W/M jet too, I just noticed it after looking at the picture several times.

 

[vroomzoomboom]

Gut that sucker and the PCV system should work well.

literaly just came in from doing that

Nice job on hiding that W/M jet too, I just noticed it after looking at the picture several times.

i know, its out in plane sight, but hidden. even the lines from the pump going to the tank you cant see even if you look for them.

 

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Explorer

Any Updates?

 

[vroomzoomboom]

nothing yet. i should get the sct back this week, other then buying a new touch screen head unit for it with a bluetooth in it today (now i can make calls or watch movies when i am drag racing or street racing. thats safe, right?).
i did possibly find why my boost gauge was acting funny however. when i put the oil pressure gauge in, i bought another a pillar pod for it, and cut one pod off so it looks like a 3 pillar gauge pod. well when i went to paint it, i sprayed the a pillar first to make sure i had the right color. well, doing that it screwed up the a pillar panel and had to throw it away and use one of my spares. when i cut the holes for the wiring, i didnt cut the opening long enough for the line going into the boost gauge, and it had a hard bend in it. that may have been just enough to collapse the nylon tube and give me incorrect readings. i will make it a little bigger and see what it reads after i get it running.

 

[4pointslow]

Touch Screen

Pictures of new touch screen please!

 

[vroomzoomboom]

dont have any pics of it yet. its a kenwood ddx392. i wanted to put it in this weekend, or close to it but its real crappy outside right now. what i am also going to try and do is get rid of my rear wiper switch in the dash bezel as well before i put it in.

 

[CDW6212R]

dont have any pics of it yet. its a kenwood ddx392. i wanted to put it in this weekend, or close to it but its real crappy outside right now. what i am also going to try and do is get rid of my rear wiper switch in the dash bezel as well before i put it in.

Another option for the display, do you ever need to watch tire pressures? There are a few versions of tire monitoring systems that use an existing display to show the pressures. I plan to get one when I get my Kenwood 7" screen into my Lincoln. I already got the backup camera, and the TPMS goes into that same aux input. The TPMS runs around $200 I think, the last I checked.

 

[vroomzoomboom]

dont have it, dont want it. i have it in my ranger and i hate it

 

[Dono]

Yea, that tpms isnt such a great system with our cold winters. The batteries in the sensors tend to cause more trouble than anything.

 

[CDW6212R]

Yes the aftermarket TPMS are not at all thoroughly reliable yet. I had one I put into my 99 for my work, and two of the five sensors rarely showed a reading. I hope they will work out that battery life and transmission distance soon. It's nice in factory installs, the rest are hit or miss so far.

Oh yea, a funny BTW. My 99 I recently got into my garage to R&R the SOHC trans. All four tire valve stem caps broke off at removal. Those TPMS sensors have metal bodies and the caps, over time(3+ years untouched) the caps corroded. One didn't break much of the threads off of, but three are showing the side of the cores. I will have to replace all four of them soon, though the tires are still good(probably flat spotted).

 

[vroomzoomboom]

here you go [MENTION=81804]4pointslow[/MENTION]

just put it in tonight. will mess around with it more tomorrow

 

[4pointslow]

Double Din

Looks great!
Once you have had double din, you can never go back.
Love the backround picture too. Awesome!

 

[vroomzoomboom]

heres how today went. i wont be tuning locally now. the shop had my hand held for almost 2 weeks. when i called and asked about it, i think he slipped up and said he didnt get the file emailed to him yet. (?) i was under the impression he was writing the tune. so if thats the case, i will just stick with james.
with that said, i went home and loaded the tune back in. i also wanted to see about my big vacuum leak as well......here is what i found.

before

after

i want to kick myself in my own ass....if you cant see what i am talking about, if you look at the tube in the first picture, you will see that it is on a hard bend. the third picture is showing that i made the hole bigger (which is the way the old one was) therefore allowing more of a curve in it without a hard bend.
BUT, the last picture shows the second problem that i had to deal with (and that i didnt notice until i looked at it). my wideband decided to take a crap !!! after about 2 hours of chasing wires that i put in (and trust me, its far from a pretty wire job in there) i manged to find a loose connector just behind my freshly installed stereo. looks like i will be redoing all my setting on that, that took a hour to do. not to mention the booming bass my neighbor had to listen to.
after i found the loose connector and fixed it (sorta) i was doing to do a datalog, and fire it off to james when this happen.

the damn hand held wont communicate with the truck. that or my laptop.
i cant win these days.....

 

[4pointslow]

X3

I think you posted the same picture for 1 and 3, the hole doesn't look any different. lol Either that or I just cant see the difference. lol.

Call SCT, they can probably help you get the X3 communicating with your laptop again.

2 weeks and they still didn't have a tune for you, got to just piss you off.

 

[Dono]

Tim, I'll call you later.
Its 1 of 3 things....

1. no power to the odb port.....fuse? Interior lights work? I think its the same fuse. Check pin 16 on the odb2 port.
2. SCT Unit went for **** (highly doubt it)
3. Laptop malfunction.

I can swing by home and pick up my laptop on the way over to your place after work if you don't have it sorted out.