Magfire
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- 92 Eddie Bauer
Hey all, I'm new here... (and before you object, I would have posted this in the new members area... but I do actually need some repair help)
So I'm a bartending ski bum, and I recently bought a 92 Explorer Eddie Bauer... Last car I had was a 86 Camaro, which died on me, though considering I couldn't figure out how to fit my race skis in it, not a bad thing. Anyways I figured, I should get myself something much more suited to trips to the mountains...
So I got myself that EX EB edition for cheap, knowing I'd have to fix it up... hoping I could do most of the work myself... this EX is my migration out of central alberta hell and into ski country...
Anyways, first hurdle.. starting issues... (it gets cold here, a few days before I bought it, it was -45C) but, they got it started and actually drove it to me for a test drive... So I figured I'd find out exactly why it had a hard time starting the first time and I noticed two things...
First off, the block heater cable was partially severed... so I added a new end.
Second of all, the battery cables were REALLY badly corroded; so badly that one of the wires going to the starter relay snapped off on me...
So the battery is currently sitting on my kitchen floor and I've had replacement cables from NAPA on my work bench/kitchen table (I think I've done more work on skis on it than eaten meals), waiting for a warm enough day to go out there and install them...
So I go out there today, and pop the hood and start tracing wires and replacing the connections I can see... only I can't see where the wires go...
Out comes the tarp and insulating camping mat (*shrugs* there's snow on the ground and I don't have a garage or anything) and under I went... found what I now know (thanks to my searching the forum) to be where the negative cable connects to the frame...
But I can't find the damn starter, from above or below, I loose the wires after a certain point...
My haynes manual tells me I need to jack the car up and not much else... from the looks of things and from what I've gathered here I've got no choice but to remove body parts or get a real mechanic to finish it?
Is there an easy way to do this?
So I'm a bartending ski bum, and I recently bought a 92 Explorer Eddie Bauer... Last car I had was a 86 Camaro, which died on me, though considering I couldn't figure out how to fit my race skis in it, not a bad thing. Anyways I figured, I should get myself something much more suited to trips to the mountains...
So I got myself that EX EB edition for cheap, knowing I'd have to fix it up... hoping I could do most of the work myself... this EX is my migration out of central alberta hell and into ski country...
Anyways, first hurdle.. starting issues... (it gets cold here, a few days before I bought it, it was -45C) but, they got it started and actually drove it to me for a test drive... So I figured I'd find out exactly why it had a hard time starting the first time and I noticed two things...
First off, the block heater cable was partially severed... so I added a new end.
Second of all, the battery cables were REALLY badly corroded; so badly that one of the wires going to the starter relay snapped off on me...
So the battery is currently sitting on my kitchen floor and I've had replacement cables from NAPA on my work bench/kitchen table (I think I've done more work on skis on it than eaten meals), waiting for a warm enough day to go out there and install them...
So I go out there today, and pop the hood and start tracing wires and replacing the connections I can see... only I can't see where the wires go...
Out comes the tarp and insulating camping mat (*shrugs* there's snow on the ground and I don't have a garage or anything) and under I went... found what I now know (thanks to my searching the forum) to be where the negative cable connects to the frame...
But I can't find the damn starter, from above or below, I loose the wires after a certain point...
My haynes manual tells me I need to jack the car up and not much else... from the looks of things and from what I've gathered here I've got no choice but to remove body parts or get a real mechanic to finish it?
Is there an easy way to do this?
