Greetings! I Know this is long but I need help and I'm not a "car guy" per se.
I purchased my cb7 over a year ago from a guy who was selling it for his father it was garage kept after he stopped driving it and he would really only drive it to sunday's for church right now it sits at 195,000 miles.
Everything is bone stock only a couple of hoses have been replaced along with other components in the engine but nothing like a tuner or anything.
I'm looking for a shop or a service that does engine swaps, rebuild, and or rewiring and tuner etc in the north Texas area. I have a full record of the entire history of the vehicle from the previous owner and myself and we put a a lot into the vehicle and it runs well.
The problem I have ran into for the second time is that right when it got cold last time around this time of year I started to have a battery drain or an alternator drain I don't know if it's a parasitic drain or what but I had got the alternator replaced twice, and on the second time it was a better alternator and a brand new battery no issues after that
However this time of the year again the battery light came on and then the ABS light came on and then slowly the car died. (Over like 3 days)
My dad was driving it and the same thing that happened to him literally happened to me.
The only thing I can think of at this point is that it has something to do with the wiring my previous mechanic said he did an electrical test and it seemed fine. But I just don't know. Only thing I can think of that might have really messed up the vehicle is I had one of those little rectangular boxes or inverters that you put on the battery to give it a jump start and I might have done it incorrectly a couple of times.
I feel like that might have killed something with the electrical work in the vehicle.
The lights on the dashboard sometimes flicker but they never are dim that is until the alternator completely drained or the car died. And maybe like two or three times I could be driving on the freeway in the gauges with either be sitting still on the dash or they would be bouncing like crazy but it didn't affect the driving of the vehicle.
The only vehicle code that is running now is vehicle speed sensor code 17 and while checking the check engine light the D4 light also blinks but it's not like it's shifting terribly.
So anyways yeah I did previously purchase like a main relay sensor or something but I never put it on the vehicle because my mechanic had got the problem fixed so I don't know if maybe that's the issue as well but I'm just looking for a shop that can do a complete engine swap rebuild or rewire I'm willing to put the money towards it.
For me that seems like the best solution even though I wanted to keep it bone stock, but I would only be able to sell this vehicle for no more than $2,000 and I'd rather put the money in the vehicle overtime myself, opposed to have the vehicle go to waste, or have somebody else eventually do it and just swap and tune up etc. I have another car I'm already driving so it's not like a dire situation but I don't want it to sit for too long it's been sitting for 2 weeks now. Interior and exterior in great condition.
I purchased my cb7 over a year ago from a guy who was selling it for his father it was garage kept after he stopped driving it and he would really only drive it to sunday's for church right now it sits at 195,000 miles.
Everything is bone stock only a couple of hoses have been replaced along with other components in the engine but nothing like a tuner or anything.
I'm looking for a shop or a service that does engine swaps, rebuild, and or rewiring and tuner etc in the north Texas area. I have a full record of the entire history of the vehicle from the previous owner and myself and we put a a lot into the vehicle and it runs well.
The problem I have ran into for the second time is that right when it got cold last time around this time of year I started to have a battery drain or an alternator drain I don't know if it's a parasitic drain or what but I had got the alternator replaced twice, and on the second time it was a better alternator and a brand new battery no issues after that
However this time of the year again the battery light came on and then the ABS light came on and then slowly the car died. (Over like 3 days)
My dad was driving it and the same thing that happened to him literally happened to me.
The only thing I can think of at this point is that it has something to do with the wiring my previous mechanic said he did an electrical test and it seemed fine. But I just don't know. Only thing I can think of that might have really messed up the vehicle is I had one of those little rectangular boxes or inverters that you put on the battery to give it a jump start and I might have done it incorrectly a couple of times.
I feel like that might have killed something with the electrical work in the vehicle.
The lights on the dashboard sometimes flicker but they never are dim that is until the alternator completely drained or the car died. And maybe like two or three times I could be driving on the freeway in the gauges with either be sitting still on the dash or they would be bouncing like crazy but it didn't affect the driving of the vehicle.
The only vehicle code that is running now is vehicle speed sensor code 17 and while checking the check engine light the D4 light also blinks but it's not like it's shifting terribly.
So anyways yeah I did previously purchase like a main relay sensor or something but I never put it on the vehicle because my mechanic had got the problem fixed so I don't know if maybe that's the issue as well but I'm just looking for a shop that can do a complete engine swap rebuild or rewire I'm willing to put the money towards it.
For me that seems like the best solution even though I wanted to keep it bone stock, but I would only be able to sell this vehicle for no more than $2,000 and I'd rather put the money in the vehicle overtime myself, opposed to have the vehicle go to waste, or have somebody else eventually do it and just swap and tune up etc. I have another car I'm already driving so it's not like a dire situation but I don't want it to sit for too long it's been sitting for 2 weeks now. Interior and exterior in great condition.
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