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Thought I would start a Project log on the 1990 Black Van. I have a white 1990 mini van that I fixed up but I really wanted a van with electric windows, lower body cladding and painted silver. What I found was the first two items but it is flat black, not silver. But I kind of like it. One special thing it has is a factory electric sunroof. Here is a photo of the van after I first got it home. I had to travel to Reno, Nevada to get it. The guy thought it had a rod knock. Would not run. That's okay, as I was going to pull the engine from the white one anyway.
Here is a link to the white vans build ...
http://polybushings.com/pages/90minivan.html
but that one will be parted out to fix up the black van.
Here is the black one, ready to get it started.
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Got the project started.
Took the head off this morning and found what I really thought was wrong with the van, a bad headgasket between #1 and #2. Compression was 5-5-150-150.
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I need a van in a bad way..lol Why can't I ever find them??
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I decided to replace the gasket and get the van running the way it is, all stock. I can always put the better engine in it later. I'd like to see how the tranny is and maybe drive it while I part out the white one.
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I need a van in a bad way..lol Why can't I ever find them??
I looked on http://www.crazedlist.org for 6 months to find what I wanted.
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Johhny,
The white van that you are parting out.How is the pass fender and drivers door?If they are good,how much and what would shipping be?Door is not a priority.Need the fender it to patch my left rear.Thanks!
Craig
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Johhny,
The white van that you are parting out.How is the pass fender and drivers door?If they are good,how much and what would shipping be?Door is not a priority.Need the fender it to patch my left rear.Thanks!
Craig
DOH! That was suppose to be a pm.
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Johnny, thanks for the link! I been offline too damn long!
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Can't see it in the first photo, but the guy that had the van ran it so long with a bad head gasket he wrecked the head. Here is a photo of the head. I have never seen one like this before. I had to use another head I had on the shelf.
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I don't have a way to weld aluminum, but good thought. I could have someone do that to save a otherwise good head.
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+1 easy fix. Not a junk head unless you have too many spares in the shop;)
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How can a guy have too many spares?
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No such thing as to many spares.
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Damn Felpro's, :p
Definatley fixable, use a good machine shop, :amen:
MC, if Johhny doesn't have anything, I do.
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Went to get plates for it today. Bought pretty ones......
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Finished the head replacement and got it running today. Runs great. Still need to fix some vac lines before a test drive.
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Worked on the vac lines. I never really understand the multiple hoses going to the mitsu turbos. I follow what I think the diagrams shows but it's not right. It over boosts!
I did get it good enough to test drive it. Trans works fine.
I installed all the missing fuses and everything works except the sunroof.
http://polybushings.com/images/bandwvans.jpg
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They both look good, I would take apart the turn signals and take the orange out of there, check out my hood vent thread, you can see how it will look clear.
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Does look good all clear. It's just an inner insert in there?