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Author Topic: My '88 Fiero - The Never-Ending Saga  (Read 105144089 times)

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Re: My '88 Fiero - The Never-Ending Saga
« Reply #390 on: March 01, 2018, 10:13:03 pm »
Today marks 1 year since I started this thread.  Still not over.  Some days, I'm hopeful for good weather in the morning, only to come home to rain or cold weather.  Today, we had the city administrators' meeting, then the zoning meeting, then open house, so I got home late, then had family stuff.
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Re: My '88 Fiero - The Never-Ending Saga
« Reply #391 on: March 10, 2018, 10:23:56 am »
There are plastic retainers for the spark plug wires.  One of mine is broken.  As I look at the retainers, they appear to be different from each other.  I'm wondering if these parts are still available.

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Re: My '88 Fiero - The Never-Ending Saga
« Reply #392 on: April 15, 2018, 04:18:39 pm »
Well, it's all wet, here, and rather miserable, but I got in a bit of time on my Fiero.  I started it, and it started right away and ran great.  I shut it off, then tried to start it again.  I had to clear the flood to get it to start, and then I had to run it to clear out the excess fuel.  Lots of smoke.

One of my rear side markers had a bad LED:


When I took the marker apart, I found out why:


New LED installed:

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Re: My '88 Fiero - The Never-Ending Saga
« Reply #393 on: April 25, 2018, 09:40:09 pm »
Was the stock shift knob for the automatic hard plastic, or leather-covered?  I've had both.  Not sure on preference.  My current knob is hard plastic.

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Re: My '88 Fiero - The Never-Ending Saga
« Reply #394 on: April 25, 2018, 10:03:57 pm »
I've never owned an automatic but Ray's 86 was and it had the hard rubber or plastic. 
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Re: My '88 Fiero - The Never-Ending Saga
« Reply #395 on: May 27, 2018, 10:16:04 pm »
Trying to get some things figured out:

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Re: My '88 Fiero - The Never-Ending Saga
« Reply #396 on: May 28, 2018, 02:14:43 pm »
Perhaps Tha Driver can verify (or not) but it seems that the Indy Fieros had leather-covered shift knobs.

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Re: My '88 Fiero - The Never-Ending Saga
« Reply #397 on: May 29, 2018, 03:39:53 pm »
Perhaps Tha Driver can verify (or not) but it seems that the Indy Fieros had leather-covered shift knobs.
Yep the Indy's had light grey leather covered shift knobs & arm rests & steering wheels.
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Re: My '88 Fiero - The Never-Ending Saga
« Reply #398 on: July 03, 2018, 06:51:13 pm »
I've been looking for brass set screws for the throttle body, but haven't had any luck, locally.  Today, I ordered 2 "quarter-twenty" half inch brass set screws.  I hope they fit.  Dunno what will prevent them from coming out.  Maybe a bit of plumbers' tape.

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Re: My '88 Fiero - The Never-Ending Saga
« Reply #399 on: July 22, 2018, 09:40:24 pm »
The screws were the wrong diameter.  Dunno how that got messed up.

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Re: My '88 Fiero - The Never-Ending Saga
« Reply #400 on: July 24, 2018, 10:20:19 pm »
My ”new” ECU:


The wiring harness is now correct.

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Re: My '88 Fiero - The Never-Ending Saga
« Reply #401 on: July 24, 2018, 10:20:45 pm »
For some reason, my left front parking light sits high in the hole, and doesn't match.  This really triggers one of my OCD's, apparently.  I plan to refinish the mounting brackets, anyway, but how the heck does something enclosed like a parking light get out of alignment?

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Re: My '88 Fiero - The Never-Ending Saga
« Reply #402 on: July 24, 2018, 10:23:41 pm »


I'm a bit irritated about that rusty bracket on my shiny new fuel filter, but I can easily pull it and fix it up.

Fixed the rusty fuel filter bracket.
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Re: My '88 Fiero - The Never-Ending Saga
« Reply #403 on: July 24, 2018, 10:26:11 pm »


Fixed those hats on top of the struts.
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Re: My '88 Fiero - The Never-Ending Saga
« Reply #404 on: July 24, 2018, 10:29:07 pm »
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