1972 F100 rust pile

[chimp koose]

nice up grade

[Crosley.In.AZ]

I had enough time this afternoon to make the swap. Changing the brackets to mount it was minor. I did connect 12v power and found the lumbar supports work. I didn't have a place to store it so it was easier to install it. The original seat is easier to store.

Interesting...   At a swap meet I found a OEM Chevy seat (non electric)  from a later truck for my 1971 Chev truck I had... I do not remember the year of the seat.  But that newer seat bolted in so easy to the 71 , it was crazy.

the original 1971 seat was worn out under neath.. It had been recovered, springs repaired by my wife and I ... at the end of the day the newer seat was awesome.

[Arnold]

Refrigerant pressure transducer sensor. That is today's important phrase. Another learning escapade. When I finished up the ac and charged it, the truck idled for quite some time while charging. It had a leak so I repeated the process. More than a month ago, I take the truck for a 30 mile drive. I find out that with the ac on, when you put it in gear, it kills the engine from load. This is drive by wire so it's supposed to self compensate for load. I figure I'll have to do some programming in the ecu with software that I don't own, yet. Returning from Scott city a week ago, the last 50 miles, the torque converter didn't lock up. I look through the service manual and it refers to a Ford dealer computer that I don't have access to. I'm looking through the wiring diagrams to see if there's anything in the harness that I had removed that could be part of the problem. On one of the many pages I see that there are a few items that affect trans pressure during operation. This is my 1st exp. with an electronic controlled trans. One is a brake input that releases the lockup when disengaging the cruise control. The other I find is connected to the ac. When it builds pressure, the sensor supplies voltage to the ecu which tells the trans to lower the pressure and therefor not kill the engine when idling in gear. I ordered a sensor, pigtail and a metric to sae adapter and went to work. I traced the 3 wires out of the harness from the ecu and ran them across the engine bay to the location of the sensor in the dryer. I had to blow the system down to install the adapter. I have recharged the system and it does do what it's supposed to. I don't know what is the trouble with the torque converter lockup, yet. This only happens when it's warmed up from at least 30 minutes of operation. I'm wondering if there is a problem with the ecu. One less item on the punch list.

 I had something not long ago..ok when cold..when hot..stalling into gear,no lockup/od. No codes. Was a coolant temp sensor.