[HandOverFist]

Hindsight -

Sitting in the truck this evening drinking a cup of coffee near the end of my shift I realized something that I overlooked at the beginning of this build. The car was running when I purchased it, but ran poorly. What I should have done before rushing to strip it down was to investigate the reason(s) for the ratty state...that likely would have saved me countless hours of head scratching down the road.

I did not take into account I would be re-using most of the existing sensors/wiring and would have been ahead of the curve by simply hooking a scanner to it and retrieving some codes...lesson learned. As it stands right now I strongly suspect a defective ECU...a bad wire harness seems less likely atm. I'll know more later today after a couple of tests which include bypassing the PMS to eliminate it as a source of sorrow.