Hey guys.
Looking for some help or suggestions if anyone's got them. I'll start off by saying that im not elctrically savy at all. Besides having a volt meter and measuring the volts and looking for broken fuses I'm clueless.
Background on the vehicle:
Its a '85 318 that came with an automatic m10.
I got a hold of a donor '89 325 with a manual and 173 dme.
One of my friends, that lives far away now, helped me do the swap and install the new harness and merge it with my original fuse box. After a lot of hard work the the vehicle was up and running. After a couple of months of driving, we got some rain and the car startedd driving funny. It started getting lots of hesitation once up to temperature. It would only stop hesitation once I went to full throttle. A rough Idle also developed as if I had a big camshaft. I stopped driving it and did some looking around. The donor car had a funky custom exhaust past the manifold colectors. The Oxygen sensor was a bit too close to the chassis and there was a dark spot on the frame.
I found a stock replacement exhaust and installed that with the oxygen censor it came with. It seemed to fix the problem but it was only very temporary. I looked at the fuse box to see if anything was burned. My fuse box cover doesn't say anything so I didn't know what to look for. I found a 15 amp fuse that was burnt ot and replaced it. Again Seemed to fix the problem but again went back to how it was. Heavy hesitation unless full throttle. At some point I seemed to figure out that the battery was being slowly drained and went bad.
At one point I thought "maybe something in the DME got fried?" so i borrowed one of my friends working DME and the problem was still there.
I took off the Oxygen sensor to inspect, which I should have done when I replaced the exhaust, and it was covered with build up. I bought a brand new bosch sensor and installed it. Also got aa brand new battery. Seemed to greatly help! Most of the hesitation was gone but still Idleled a little rough. I decided that the next day after I got off work I would adjust the valves, clean the maf sensor and replace the temp sensor. I fugured it can only help since I didnt do those things when I first did the swap. I did those maintanances and then tried to start the car but nothing. Checked the voltage on the battery and it was 12.10 volts. I recharged it but still nothing. not even a click or anything. While still trying to figure out what was happening the only thing I could hear activating was the Idle control valve.I noticed that I dont hear the fuel pump either. The lights on the dash turn on but when i go to start nothing happens.
I'm kinda stumped. I really dont know what to check at this point.
Please Help???
Looking for some help or suggestions if anyone's got them. I'll start off by saying that im not elctrically savy at all. Besides having a volt meter and measuring the volts and looking for broken fuses I'm clueless.
Background on the vehicle:
Its a '85 318 that came with an automatic m10.
I got a hold of a donor '89 325 with a manual and 173 dme.
One of my friends, that lives far away now, helped me do the swap and install the new harness and merge it with my original fuse box. After a lot of hard work the the vehicle was up and running. After a couple of months of driving, we got some rain and the car startedd driving funny. It started getting lots of hesitation once up to temperature. It would only stop hesitation once I went to full throttle. A rough Idle also developed as if I had a big camshaft. I stopped driving it and did some looking around. The donor car had a funky custom exhaust past the manifold colectors. The Oxygen sensor was a bit too close to the chassis and there was a dark spot on the frame.
I found a stock replacement exhaust and installed that with the oxygen censor it came with. It seemed to fix the problem but it was only very temporary. I looked at the fuse box to see if anything was burned. My fuse box cover doesn't say anything so I didn't know what to look for. I found a 15 amp fuse that was burnt ot and replaced it. Again Seemed to fix the problem but again went back to how it was. Heavy hesitation unless full throttle. At some point I seemed to figure out that the battery was being slowly drained and went bad.
At one point I thought "maybe something in the DME got fried?" so i borrowed one of my friends working DME and the problem was still there.
I took off the Oxygen sensor to inspect, which I should have done when I replaced the exhaust, and it was covered with build up. I bought a brand new bosch sensor and installed it. Also got aa brand new battery. Seemed to greatly help! Most of the hesitation was gone but still Idleled a little rough. I decided that the next day after I got off work I would adjust the valves, clean the maf sensor and replace the temp sensor. I fugured it can only help since I didnt do those things when I first did the swap. I did those maintanances and then tried to start the car but nothing. Checked the voltage on the battery and it was 12.10 volts. I recharged it but still nothing. not even a click or anything. While still trying to figure out what was happening the only thing I could hear activating was the Idle control valve.I noticed that I dont hear the fuel pump either. The lights on the dash turn on but when i go to start nothing happens.
I'm kinda stumped. I really dont know what to check at this point.
Please Help???
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