Wickedrx7's build, L99-Magnum F, Ronin 8.8 - Finally enjoying the car!

[wickedrx7]

This is interesting. Did you put die in it? I was wondering if it could be under the heat sleeve.

I wish it would just do this so I don't have to keep hunting it.

[MPbdy]

Oh no I saw a jet nozzle of freon spraying out of the crimp area lol.

Looking in the area it is caked with grease from the compressor oil leaking out. It's the line from the compressor to the lower condenser hookup.

[Cobranut]

One of my lines has a leak at the crimp. Was a slow leak and I couldn't find it. Then it was a fast and loud leak. Froze some plastic lol.

Just don't let liquid refrigerant hit your skin.  It can cause serious frostbite very quickly.  If it hits you in the face it can take out your eyes. 

[MPbdy]

One of my lines has a leak at the crimp. Was a slow leak and I couldn't find it. Then it was a fast and loud leak. Froze some plastic lol.

Just don't let liquid refrigerant hit your skin.  It can cause serious frostbite very quickly.  If it hits you in the face it can take out your eyes.

Yeah I literally parked my car and heard it start hissing. Not even working on it. The leak made the AC not come on due to low pressure about a month prior.

After spending 5 hours in traffic in the car yesterday I really regret not fixing the AC yet lol.

[Cobranut]

One of my lines has a leak at the crimp. Was a slow leak and I couldn't find it. Then it was a fast and loud leak. Froze some plastic lol.

Just don't let liquid refrigerant hit your skin.  It can cause serious frostbite very quickly.  If it hits you in the face it can take out your eyes.

Yeah I literally parked my car and heard it start hissing. Not even working on it. The leak made the AC not come on due to low pressure about a month prior.

After spending 5 hours in traffic in the car yesterday I really regret not fixing the AC yet lol.

5 HOURS IN TRAFFIC?  5 freakin HOURS?    I think I'd go nuts if I had to put up with that. 

Yeah, get your A/C fixed, and MOVE somewhere that EVERYONE else doesn't want to follow.   

[MPbdy]

Yeah it was hour and a half in the morning and nearly 3 hours in the afternoon    Dumb.

[wickedrx7]

Not a lot to update on the seven, just been driving it between working on my deck project:

1800 lbs of concrete mixed and poured (wife was pretty good helper lifting the 80 lb bags)





3500 lbs of 1-1.5" stones moved same day... This sucked



Main structure:



Mother in Law helper!


Decking going down, did this in a day, wife was pretty good helper on this.    I used Cali Bamboo Bamdeck, Extremely happy with the final product!





Next up, railing and stairs... Can't wait to have this done.  Next house project is garage expansion! Then paint the outside.. and the list goes on. 

[digitalsolo]

That's a gnarly deck!

[largeorangefont]

Dude that came out sweet!

[kinger]

OMG I feel your pain on decks!  This little POS took about 5 years off my life. I got it done last week. I feel like your wife in the last pict LOL



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[wickedrx7]

OMG I feel your pain on decks!  This little POS took about 5 years off my life. I got it done last week. I feel like your wife in the last pict LOL





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That looks great! I toyed with doing multi levels like that but then the size was getting obscene.  We are also trying to figure out a pergola, I like how yours turned out.

[cool]

Both of these setups look great!  I'm about to embark on the same journey.  We just put up a pool, and you can't have a pool without a monster deck attached to it (so I'm told).  Once that is finished, my garage addition begins.

Wicked - Did you move?  I don't recall that much green space when I grabbed those parts from you.  Looks like a nice semi-secluded place!

[wickedrx7]

Yes, I am in the burbs now. Medinah to be exact. Bought the place mainly for the property and space to expand the garage.

[kinger]

OMG I feel your pain on decks!  This little POS took about 5 years off my life. I got it done last week. I feel like your wife in the last pict LOL





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That looks great! I toyed with doing multi levels like that but then the size was getting obscene.  We are also trying to figure out a pergola, I like how yours turned out.

That is what happened with ours the size got huge!  The pergola is aluminum welded by me and then powder coated gloss black. The inserts are 2x2 lumber rock plastic railing spindles. Decking is nylon composite I use on my dock systems. It was so much work but at least I just have to hose down every few years with no other maint needed. 


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[wickedrx7]

Been awhile since I updated... I finished the deck some time ago - cable railing was kinda a PIA but I am happy with how it turned out.







Now back to the RX-7-

I have been dealing with an inaccurate fuel gauge for some time, back with the stock and now with my speedhut.  I finally decided to really dig into what is causing the issue.  I had clean the contacts multiple times and measured resistance at the float. It always measured perfect so I thought it might be the actual stock gauge.  I was still seeing similar, even worse issues with my speedhut gauges. 

So I started to diagnose, I figured out that I was getting varying readings at the pins on the tank.  First I cleaned the ground that goes to the top of the tank, this didn't change anything.  I added extra grounds and still nothing.  So I pulled the assembly out.  I figured out that the ground on the negative side of the potentiate was very inconsistent.  My solution was to run a ground wire from the chassis to negative side.  Since I am not using the stock gauges I decided to cut the low fuel warning sender off and use this as a ground.   I then grounded the other side. 

So after all this I tested everything and go good OHM readings all the way up at the gauge.  So I hooked up my fuel pump and started the car and the gauge dropped about an 1/8 tank. So the gauge is very accurate when the fuel pump isn't running but that seems to be causing some sort of EM interference or something.  I don't plan on digging into this further because it is reading pretty close and I never let my tank go below 1/4 anyways.