You might check craigslist. I have seen the sheet metal tools go for less then a grand. Unless by fall project you meant you were going to shape them by hand to keep warm.
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I have a 2000 Dodge truck with a 5.9 that been sitting out in the back 10 for about five years now. Had some fuel issues related to the brain box and I couldn’t easily solve them so I parked it. Now I would like to resurrect it by giving it a lobotomy. It has a distributor and single coil. I want to pull the MPFI intake off it and put a carb and manifold on it. The question is does that free it from all the sensors that feed data to the computer and can the computer be eliminated all together? ABS was eliminated long ago. I’m putting it here because this will be my doomsday truck and it will be wood gassed.
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If it has a rotating distro with simple ignition control module that can run stand alone from an ECM. Then yes. just slap a carb on it.
I picked up a low mileage 5.3 ltr for the Doomsday Truck. The 283 thats in it now is going to get stuffed in the S-10. That truck will be next.
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Just about any engine can be set up to bypass all the sensors. You need spark and fuel. If you bypass all the sensors the ECM will set a code and go into closed loop mode. The ignition system will still work but you will need to keep the MAP sensor. Other than that I all the other sensors can be omitted. Im sure there are some exceptions, especially if some grounds are omitted the ECM then may shut down the ignition system.
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Spark and fuel. That’s just about the limit of my diagnostic abilities. I’ll have to do some research on that distributor. If the ignition module is reporting back to the ECM then I should be able to swap it out for a pre-OB module or distributor if necessary. I’m not clear on what the MAP would do in a non-FI engine. I’m pretty much wanting to drag this thing back to 1969.
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Its your vacuum advance for the ECM. Its the same principle as the vacuum advance on carb engines. But on an engine that the ignition is controlled by the ECM you need this sensor.
Your engine has a mechanical so no need for it.
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My 1st truck was a 1962 chevy 283 truck, ran supream, I think the reason i dont remember, was i crashed that truck on the way too chesning, two youg kids ran a stop sign speeding and i teeboned them at about 65 mph out on dodge road.woke up in saginaw HOSPITAL:.dont remember the rest. that truck had a solid frame thoiugh. Those kids were speeding so fast through the stop sign, it pushed my front bumper and fenders about a foot in the direction they were flying, i hit them dead broadside, the rider in his vehicle road in my ambolinse to the hospital, his friend or brother went in another ambolinse. I was about 16 years old then.I dought i could servive that crash at my age now, 64.
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