Dav(e?), I'm sitting in my garage at work right now rapping myself in the head.
So this engine, when it ran in the probe, spun like a top.
I took it to Advance and had them check out the battery and alternator, cuz... I wanted to.
He had run the engine to 2500, and turn on the high beams and fan... this thing went immediately down to "HELP ME I'M DYING Revs Per Minute" turned the fan off... beautiful. Even with the gas pressed!
So I'm like "...ground."
Turns out there's a bracket that bolts to the tranny has a ground attached to it. So i followed the black/yellow ground wire... hooked up. Since the bracket didn't do anything else when I put the engine in I never bolted it down... just rested it on the stud. I just went through with an ohm-meter and started straightening everything out. Found that, hooked it up... now this car starts in one crank, JUST LIKE THE PROBE DID! So I'm gonna go drive around now and see if I have the same problem at temp. (I keep saying at temp like it's going to go into closed loop
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