leolito wrote:
I think the installer of that system was lazy, or a bit of an animal.
A bit of both I think looking at the rest of the system.....
Both my other cars have got the filler on the space in the rear bumper for a second towing socket, so on one side of the towbar there is the electrical socket and the LPG filler on the other side. It also means I can fill up from either side of the pump. You can't fit a UK/Dutch style bayonet fill nozzle behind the petrol filler flap, it is too big. Some people fit the continental style 10mm threaded nozzle that need an adapter screwed in to fill. They don't meet the UKLPG code of practice so you will have problems getting it certified if your insurance company insisted it was. I also worry about the weight of a fill gun hanging on a tiny little 10mm brass thread after seeing one break off and spray Propane all over the filling station forecourt.
It is a dual ball bearing so there isn't any adjustment like there would be with a pair of taper roller bearings.
If it is, that would be excellent as it will almost certainly be the correct one. From what I can find it seems only base models didn't have it. I was intending waiting until I'm changing the steering column anyway. A day laying in the footwell should be fun.....
Found another bit of the previous owners bodgery today. Set all the windows except the front passengers which just made a clunking noise inside the door and wouldn't set. In the boot was a replacement (used) window regulator so pulled the door panel off to investigate and change it. Regulator was bent and not attached to the window but the glass didn't drop. Channel it runs in had been crushed so it wouldn't drop open.....
Not all have it, see my post above and check the part number on the brake modulator. ANR2239 has traction control on the rear wheels only, ANR2238 doesn't have it.
Getting somewhere on my new one. I can now explain why it is giving a Traction failure and faults relating to traction control, it doesn't have it. The brake modulator is an ANR2238 while the one on my white car is an ANR2239. 2239 has 2 wheel traction control while 2238 doesn't have traction control and unlikely to have been fitted to an SE spec car so it looks like that has been changed. Not dropped the glovebox to check the number on the ECU yet, but I suspect there's traction control equipped ECU in there....
That means it is a 98 model year car so will have the Wabco C ABS system with 2 wheel traction control, your 2001 will have Wabco D with 4 wheel traction control.
There was at least 3 complete ones when I was there last week, I suspect having just been removed complete from cars being stripped. Unless his resident rats have nibbled on them, they should be fine.
Agreed, I'd start with fluid and filter first and make sure you fill it fully as on a 2001 you don't have the dipstick tube like on the earlier cars. I came across the same problem on an Audi years ago and that was because it had been serviced and the mechanic that did it had put the wrong fluid in it.
Yeah well, just occasionally there's something that I've never come across and figured out before but this is a completely new one on me. Just hoping someone else has had it and figured it out but I strongly suspect someone has been playing and got it wrong.
Is your scapper a 98 or 99 model year (WA or XA VIN number)? If it is a 98 model year car, it will have the Wabco C system so the only things that will be of any use on a 2001 will be the ABS pump, accumulator and wheel sensors, the ECU is different as the Wabco D unit was fitted to 99 model year onwards. Without the ECU, pump and accumulator, the brakes will still work, not very well and will need a lot of pressure on the pedal. At least it is a big pedal so there's room for you to put both feet on it.....
The 4.0SE I've just bought is giving an ABS Fault, Traction Failure on the message centre as soon as it is started and before it has moved. Read the codes with the Nanocom and there were lots of them so cleared those hoping I would just be left with the relevant ones. There's not as many as there were but still a lot and not the usual wheel sensor errors. It's a '98 GEMS so has the Wabco C system and the faults are as follows:
Open circuit to normally open ETC valve
Short between valves on outlet demanual valve
Short between valves on normally closed ETC valve
No inductive load on normally closed ETC valve
Anyone got a clue what these are telling me? It looks like I've got to start looking at the ABS system wiring but with the other half or incorrectly done modifications that the car has been subjected to, it wouldn't surprise me if someone has tried fitting a 4 wheel TC modulator without changing the ECU for a Wabco D, so checking that might give a clue as to what is going on.
Harv wrote:
I’m waiting for the 500,000 signature.
So am I but when I try to update it, it won't let me......
So here it is, with the Ascot and the Merc it may replace behind it.
and from the other side.....
Spent today fitting a new centre silencer box to the Ascot as it won't go through an MoT with one that has split along the seam, then did a bit on the new one. It needed a rear height sensor but found I had 5 spare fronts but no rears, so swapped over the arm from a dead rear and fitted it to a front. Fitted that, after having to use the angle grinder on the bolts holding the old one on, and the EAS is now working as it should. It probably needs a full calibration but it actually looks like the heights are about right. It had a side step (non-standard alloy thing) on one side and two lumps of steel sticking out the side on the other. Of the 8 bolts, two came out, on 2 the rivnuts started to turn in the chassis so the grinder came out again and I just cut the heads off the remaining 6 bolts. Then, I broke the habit of a lifetime and gave it a wash. It has a scratch along the drivers door, a couple of small marks here and there and the LPG filler in the rear wing, probably because it has twin electric towing sockets so there isn't a spare space to fit it there as it is on both the others. Not really much that can be done about that but it is a shame.
So now it no longer has an EAS fault on the dash, it still has a LH front window not set message as the window appears to have been jammed shut and the motor can be heard doing something but not moving the window. There is also a LH window regulator in the boot too but I'm just hoping someone hasn't welded the window runners to keep it closed like they have the steering column. It also has an ABS fault but that one deserves a thread of its own so that will be appearing shortly.....
nigelbb wrote:
Apart from just putting the nozzle of a vacuum cleaner over the aperture below the clock how else can I clean it? I can't find how to remove it.
Centre console side panels off, knee panel off, switch panel off and it is screwed to the inside of the switch panel with two tiny but long pozi 1 screws. Once it is out, the best way of cleaning it is with a soft paintbrush as the fins of the fan get covered in dust as well as the thermistor.
Sorry, just checked. I've got a headlight switch, a few other dash switches, a couple of blend motors but no sign of an aspirator so hopefully cleaning the fluff out will get it reading correctly.
I always use genuine LR ones and haven't had a leak yet. If you look at the way the connection is designed, the O rings aren't crushed into the joint but the clamp stops them from being bolted up tight which allows some movement which is taken up by the 'squashiness' of the O rings, so you don't want them glueing in place as they are more likely to leak than less.
Other way round. It is the front that is expensive probably because there is more to it.
Damn, signature won't update......
nigelbb wrote:
Richard, you need to update your signature to include the new acquisition. It looks like quite a project that you have taken on but I'm assuming with all the issues that you got it at a good price.
Signature updated. It was advertised at £995, I knocked him down to £700...... Once I've sorted the mechanics and Dina has done the interior, it should make a nice car.
I thought you had a couple of steering columns there, so put one to one side for me in case I can't get the one I have sorted out. I'll be there on either 23rd or Friday 26th, whichever suits you best. I will also take one of the front bumpers as I had a call last night from the owner in Spain who has had an argument with a concrete post in a supermarket car park so wants one. He's prepared to pay money for it too but quite how we are going to get it to Spain is a different story.....
Other things I discovered on the new one, it only came with one manual key, no remotes but the BeCM is unlocked so I have the lockset number (and EKA), heads on the engine looked new and checking engine the number shows it to be a 46D, so not a 4.0 litre but a 4.6. It has another number manually stamped into it, JQ1035, so I suspect that is a number put there by someone that has rebuilt it. Anyone know who stamps a number in this format onto engine blocks as it would be interesting to see what was done to it, if we're lucky it may even have been top hatted.....
You got home then, or are you still heading north? I'll post pictures of my new acquisition if you post some of yours.....