Burning and smelly problem.

[Derrack]

Ok, I'm back. New problem. Switched out my head, head gasket, and timing. From a cracked head. Got her back together and I'm getting spark. I'm also getting fuel. Shes turning over and not starting. Not even a little bit. wile trying to start her up a bellow of smoke came out smelling like burning wires. O shit. From what I can tell, from looking in my chilton manual, the conector that hooks on to the speedmiter sensor is melting. So I popped her off and could'nt think of any reason it would be happening. all the plugs and vaccume lines I undid I put back correctly and didn't touch that plug at all. well then I noticed the wires on the back of the altanator were frayed and contacted the grounded housing. bad news. Fixed that and the plug still smokes. Also the cars still not starting.

Question number one, is it the speedomiter sensor? It's on the tranny snuck in between the support that hangs the tranny onto the firewall,so rear, and within that bracket into the tranny... or transfer case..

Question two, Why wouldn't the car even spudder or try to start when its getting air spark and fuel?

got the car to run, im pritty sure the speed sensor burnt up from the short.. If no one else has any more ideas on the electrical burn up give a shout out.

 

[Derrack]

foub the problems. resolved.

 

[907gs-t]

So how is your car running now?

 

[doctor_shock10]

what was the problem? im confused after reading that.

 

[Derrack]

The plug and speed sensor connection got hot and melted from the alternator power leads grounding. The wires about six inches up into the harness overheated and melted. so when I unplugged it, it blew fuses from my handling that part of the harness which had the melted wires. But it started in the plug conection prior to the fuses blowing from the brittle melted stuff up the loom. It might have also snagged a tool on that part of the harness during the "head" ache. As in fixing the blown head. It was blowing fuses. Havn't really fixed the problem since I'm wating for a new sensor and plug. I have the wires wrapped up and theres no problems. Car ran fine... stopped blowing fuses. Unless you want to hear what happend next


I'll just toss it on here. Started it up, running great, but she was smoking out the tail pipe.. I figure antifrezee, from the head failure, was in the tail pipe still. I let her run for a couple hours. Thought to myself, this isn't funny. Drove her and she was blowing white smoke. Lame. Went to autozone, got a compression checker and that was fine. So I pulled off the intake snorkle and wiggled. The turbo had alot of play. I disconnected the cooling lines off the turbo and butted them together. No more smoke. Have her apart and I am wating on a used turbo I purchassed from someone on here. Fingers crossed.