(NOTE!: Please see the 7 questions below. If you have any feedback on even just one of them, Please feel free to list the # and thoughts. Thank You)
Well, after years (10+) of casually looking, I lucked out when I got my Gold 85 600ES turbo last fall. Well, luck just smiled on me again by giving me a SECOND Gold 85 600ES (Both convertibles). The first one I grabbed and had shipped to me, since I'd had so much trouble finding a gold one at all, but it was just in 'good' condition. This second one is in much better shape, but I have a couple of issues that I'm hoping will make sense to others on here.
Similar to the post below about the 85 Shelby Charger, I'm having a 'cut out' issue. I got a big long list of paperwork from the prev. owner and it's some very interesting reading. I'm not sure I agree with it all, but here's the background.
The car had a small under-hood fire. The mechanic's paperwork said "valve cover gasket was leaking and started a small fire". They replaced the following:
- Throttle position sensor
- Coolant temp sensor
- Knock sensor
- O2 sensor
- (2) Fuel injectors
- (1) spark plug
(note: Other items like plugs/wires were replaced about 6 months before this, and of course things like the valve cover gasket! lol)
The notes from the shop say:
"found several sensors, hoses, and elect. components damaged from under-hood fire. Rerouted vacuum lines correctly. NOTE: Over 3/4 throttle acceleration the power loss light comes on and car shuts down briefly. Needs turbocharger replaced. Shows code 45 'over-boost detected'."
Now, I've had a lot of 2.2 turbos in my years and I have found most of the issues to be from things like I read on the 85 Shelby charger post below (will replace the fuel filter tomorrow for one), but I've never known anyone to say the turbo is bad when it spools up/down nicely when you rev it, or when driving. (The first thing I check on a test drive). In fact, the car drives GREAT when you keep from hard acceleration. I even drove it 180 miles home when I bought it with NO issues at all.
SO, now my QUESTIONS:
1) Re: Code 45. I read the code sheet listed in the 85 Shelby Charger post and will go over all the vacuum lines tomorrow, but if there's anything else anyone can think of please chime in.
2) The Cruise control doesn't work. Is there any 'link' between this issue and shutting down the Cruise? IF NOT, Can anyone offer me any common things to check to get this working again?
3) (The car doesn't have power door locks. This was a shock since I've never seen an ES that wasn't fully loaded. Actually had manl. seats, but I've already got a power track to install). HOW HARD is it to add them? (even just the electronics, if not the button since the armrest is different)
4) Both of my ES's seem like the 'dim' on the dash lights doesn't work right. (Won't just turn on to the 'bright dash' mode and stay). Is this easy to 'clean' or fix?
5) The both have the pizza wheels, but are quite 'rough'. Is there any good way to 'refinish' these wheels? (and if anyone in the Portland area does this - HINT HINT)
6) Does anyone know if the digital dashes are the same (plugs/wiring) for different years? I'm going to make one of these my summer 'driver convertible', and really like the 86 dashes better. Also, what about the dashes from an 86 Lebaron GTS's? I'd think Chry. would just wire them all the same, and just change the display... or so I'm hoping. ANY info on this would be a big help before I go digging in the yards for different displays.
7) BOTH of these cars have "- - - - - - -" for the mileage. I've seen all sorts of 'Fun Mopar digi-mileage tricks" in my past. (2 friends that hit bumps and came back with totally different mileage and my 91 Imperial that was 4 years old with 179K on it and the owner SWORE to me (she was almost crying) that it had 38,xxx on it one day and 164,xxx the next. I almost believed her 'cause the car was perfect and didn't have a crack in the drivers seat leather) The prev. owner of this ES said she was told that the "sending unit" was bad and that's why the mileage was - - - - - - -. Does anyone have any thoughts, info, fixes for this?
SOOOOOOO sorry for the super long post, and a dozen questions, but I really want to get these 2 all set up. 1 for show, 1 for summer daily driver. ANYTHING that anyone can offer will help!
Ray.
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Vacume lines to the waste gate were not only on wrong ( first the 'bottom' vac from the manifold was on the top PURGE nipple. Second, the one from the manifold and to the wastegate were reversed, and Finally, the line from the wastegate had a break in it!) 
