94 Buick RoadMaster Estate Wagon LT 1 issues

**Bentwings** · 11-28-2019

That line is in place and clean. My son just reported that the spark test was great. It maxed out the tester and he even got juiced once by it. So good news there.
My grand son likes the EEHACK. He likes that it allows editing but he says he won’t do it until he has his own . Might be a while as they are Ford guys.

The vacuum line in the picture was also open...not hooked to anything. I’ll have to ask where it was supposed to be connected or if it was just a blank and supposed to be plugged.
They won’t get to do any more until Friday.

**steveo** · 11-28-2019

Originally Posted by Bentwings

My grand son likes the EEHACK. He likes that it allows editing but he says he won’t do it until he has his own . Might be a while as they are Ford guys.

eehack doesn't really edit anything (besides flashing new bin files). the changes in the control section are temporary and go away when you disconnect or restart the engine. they're totally safe.

**Bentwings** · 11-29-2019

Thanks for the info. I looked up much of your sig. and passed this on to my son and grand son.

The gasket was much worse than the picture. We straightened it out enough to continue testing. It would be nice to have a spare on hand.
They may be working on the car now. I’ll know more tonight.

**Bentwings** · 12-07-2019

Well, good news for a change.The new MAP sensor got the vac up to a little over 16 almost 17 inches. Then adding tested and known good O2 sensors got it just over 19 inches at idle. My son says it runs much better. He is going to put a few miles on it tomorrow and see if it cleans out a bit. Then they will put the scanner on it and record where we are at. I’m curious to see what the new O2 sensors look like on the scanner. The air cleaner only has a few miles on it so I think we’ll leave it alone.

I don’t know if they put a fuel filter on or not but I think it would be a good idea.
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If all goes well I’d like to fix the right exhaust pipe. It looks like it got hit by something backing up. It hangs down too far and looks terrible. Not a big deal but I just don’t like exhaust pipes that face the wrong way. I really hope it’s finally fixed. It’s going to get brutally cold next week and more snow. The el Camino is just a handful in the snow that I don’t need.
They are going to try and bring the car to me then take the el Camino back and fix the idle, change oil and a couple other fixes I’ve had to delay.

So that’s it for now.
I want to thank everyone for all the help and tips and tests. I hope this finally fixed this car. I’ll know more
tomorrow afternoon.

Byron.

**vilefly** · 12-07-2019

Looks like 2-cycle-john is out of a job. Failed miserably in his work. Didn't even find a single vacuum leak, and you guys found them all. He is so fired. No worthy of his own scan tool which would have told him about an inaccurate MAP sensor reading KOEO.

**Bentwings** · 12-08-2019

I’m bending over ready for the butt kicking. My son drove the car around quite a bit today but it started missing again. He parked it in his shop to cool off. After a couple hours he tried it again. It started right up and ran fine for about five minutes then started missing. So he shut it off and let it sit for awhile. Grandson noticed AF leaking all over. So they raised up and it’s pouring out of the “new water pump”. So they pulled the vacuum lines off the Opti and AF drained out. They blew a little air through it gently then started it without the lines. It ran fine but water was still pouring out of the water pump.

Give me a boot. I had a new WP install so it would not be a problem later. Supposedly a new old stock Opti too. Looks like I got taken to the cleaners. I told them to take pictures before they fix it. And take a scan from cold start until it starts missing. I need the car and I’m out of time. I’ll deal with the other guy Mon.I know...ya all told me there were issues in the manner the testing was going.

I need to go outside and cool off. More later.
Byron