new to DSMs need a little advice

[95z286speed]

hey guys, I am new to dsms, but i am not the owner, my girlfriend recently bought a 92 eagle talon tsi awd with the 5 speed manual that was sitting for 7 to 8 years in a shed.

Well first off we just try to get it started to see how it was running, it has 113 k on it and it is bone stock. We put in new plugs NGK, new wires, and the fuel pump was shot so we got an oem replacement, but we have a walboro ready for it once we get a fuel pressure regulator, so it cranked to life, we didn't run it long because we didnt trust the timing belt, but the good new was no knocks or anything in that nature.

Well a few weeks ago we got around to pulling the motor and tranny out, we changed the

Gates timing belt and bearings, the hydrolic tensioner, water pump, valve cover gasket, oil pan gasket, intake manifold gasket, flushed the rad (which was really nasty), changed the tranny and transfer case fluids, new oil and oil filter, and shifter bushings.

Well it cranks right up now, but there are a few things that we need to figure out.

1. before the guy that we bought the car from parked the car he had the clutch changed at a shop, what i don't get was he said as soon as he got it back it was grinding gears...i personally would have taken it back right away but for some reason he didnt. Well we noticed that the shifter bushings were shot, we got aluminum ones.

We go for a drive, pedal engages close to the floor, so i am assuming i need to bleed the system, check the master and slave, etc. Well we take it out for a drive, goes into all gears without a problem, go to shift from first to 2nd with clutch pedal on floor and easy shifting, grinds, 2nd to 3rd grinds, but 3rd to 4th and 4th to 5th don't seem to be doing it that often.

So we get back to the house park it and let it idle for a few min, has a boost leak, ill talk about that in a second, we go to move it into the garage, it was sitting in neutral with ebrake up, put it in first but it grinds going in.

I am thinking that either A, system needs to be bleed and adjusted, or b, clutch disk is backwards, i have heard that it can be done on these cars.

2. Was my first time doing timing belt, timing seems to be a little off, i think i need to adjust the cam position sensor, but i also need to go back and tighten the timing belt because it has a little too much play in it.

3. im pretty sure it has a big boost leak because when i go pedal to the floor around 3500 + the car will just shudder and not accelerate. going to build my own boost leak tester thing.

4. timing - idles a little high, tried the method on vfaq for adjusting timing after grounding the plug by the battery and the pin inside the car. it helped but the idle is sticking a little and when you drive and push the clutch it will drop to 500 pulse up to 1000, and do that 2 to 3 times and then idle fine.

The main problem that i need to get fixed this weekend is the boost leaks and tranny, i am hoping the tranny isn't screwed from the grinding. but any help on any of these problems will be greatly appreciated

thanks Ian

 

[Badarse97]

Good luck mang!

 

[95z286speed]

Ever get this thing right?

Not yet, we are down at college right now and the car is back at home, were just waiting on those first pay checks of the summer to come in and it will be on the road. We are really excited to get it going but gotta have the cash before hand first.

I did figure out that we can get the spring for gas door from the Mitsubishi dealer so that is one problem fixed. amazingly its only a dollar, im just hoping they didn't discontinue it.