Today was productive! The factory antenna was long gone, replaced by a parts store cheapie that had been broken off. A couple days ago I put the nut splitter on it to break it loose and threw it away. The firewall grommet on the antenna cable was junk. This morning I went to Pull-A-Part and got the entire antenna, cables, plastic fender panel, and grommet. Got it installed.
After my previous fixes, the thermostat housing was still seeping, so I pulled it.
View media item 32215I'd installed it, thinking there was still enough meat on the housing to seal. Doh! I dug around and found the housing that came on the trashed engine that was in the truck.
I finished up both seat mounts, but still have to install them.
The bulkhead connector is installed, and I have an 8 gauge wire ready to run to the center console, where I'm going to branch it from a fuse panel into the three circuits for the seat heaters and the cigarette lighter receptacles.
I cut all the now-surplus TBI connectors off the engine, pulled the wiring back to the EFI bulkhead, wrapped them up and zip tied them out of the way. I finished getting the Sniper circuits wired with nice connectors, and temporarily ran the handheld through the door and into the cab. The initialization was easy, and when I did the test crank so it could initialize the tach signal, it busted right off and ran. It died pretty quickly, but after running through a few more tests it settled nicely and ran great. It was as easy as advertised.
I warmed the engine up per the instructions and tried to set the IAC, but somehow got it screwed up and now it's trying to run with 30% IAC all the time. It's pretty bad when the instructions that come with the unit only have a single paragraph on setting the IAC with no pictures, and don't tell you how to reset it if you screw it up, but a third party website tells you exactly what to fix. https://www.efisystempro.com/efi-pro-hangout/holley-sniper-installation-startup-troubleshooting They even call Holley out on their poor instructions. I've read up on how to reset it, so that's tomorrow's project, along with installing seats, installing the center console, and finding a way to run the handheld Sniper controller into the cab.
After my previous fixes, the thermostat housing was still seeping, so I pulled it.
View media item 32215I'd installed it, thinking there was still enough meat on the housing to seal. Doh! I dug around and found the housing that came on the trashed engine that was in the truck.
I finished up both seat mounts, but still have to install them.
The bulkhead connector is installed, and I have an 8 gauge wire ready to run to the center console, where I'm going to branch it from a fuse panel into the three circuits for the seat heaters and the cigarette lighter receptacles.
I cut all the now-surplus TBI connectors off the engine, pulled the wiring back to the EFI bulkhead, wrapped them up and zip tied them out of the way. I finished getting the Sniper circuits wired with nice connectors, and temporarily ran the handheld through the door and into the cab. The initialization was easy, and when I did the test crank so it could initialize the tach signal, it busted right off and ran. It died pretty quickly, but after running through a few more tests it settled nicely and ran great. It was as easy as advertised.
I warmed the engine up per the instructions and tried to set the IAC, but somehow got it screwed up and now it's trying to run with 30% IAC all the time. It's pretty bad when the instructions that come with the unit only have a single paragraph on setting the IAC with no pictures, and don't tell you how to reset it if you screw it up, but a third party website tells you exactly what to fix. https://www.efisystempro.com/efi-pro-hangout/holley-sniper-installation-startup-troubleshooting They even call Holley out on their poor instructions. I've read up on how to reset it, so that's tomorrow's project, along with installing seats, installing the center console, and finding a way to run the handheld Sniper controller into the cab.