[T3] starter wire, rebuild, other stuff.

["mark kaylor" <markkaylor@hotmail.com>]

someone mentioned a few days ago something about the wire from the main 
harness (fuel injection) that goes to the starter.  well when i got my car i 
had many problems, and ended up going through pretty much every wire in the 
car.  my wire from harness to starter was taped up, and the connection on 
the starter solenoid was bent down as if to say "don't do it".  it wasn't 
the source of my problem, so i left it off, and the car has been running 
great for some time now.
what exactly does this wire do, i wonder what would happen if i put it back 
on?  i wonder why it was taken off to begin with?

and on another note, i stepped my idle up a bit (gen and oil light 
flickering at idle) and the gen light doesn't flicker anymore.  now the car 
surges at idle until it is warmed up but i can deal with that if i don't 
have to see any flickering lights!!

lastly, i've started thinking about the future of my car, especially my 
engine.  compression is good and i don't burn oil, but i do have the oil 
light flickering at idle problem.  so i'm told that my main bearings are 
worn.  what does this involve?  what i need to know is, can i just fix the 
bearing problem and keep my exisiting pistons/cylinders/heads/etc?  or what 
it be stupid to not do everything while the engine is out.  keep in mind i'm 
very poor, in debt thousands of dollars to my current university, and i need 
a car badly.  what i would like to do is the following:  i have another 
engine, out of a 73 fastback.  its fuel injected just like mine.  but what i 
would like to do is get the case from that engine worked on, then just take 
my engine out and swap parts for a complete engine.
like i said, my compression is good and my heads are fairly new and very 
taken care of!  how much of a fix is the main bearings, and who does it 
(local machine shop?), and what else should i do when i'm in there?  thanks 
for all the help guys.......

mark in lancaster pennsylvania and no i'm not amish...


oh yeah...has anyone seen "summer of sam"?  the spike lee movie?  there's a 
couple second shot of a baby blue square, looks just like mine.... nice...


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