Martyuk wrote: was going to solder/heatshrink, but the sensor side wiring must not be copper (I presume to do with the heat) as it wouldn't take solder to it - so crimps it was.
No it isn't, they are stainless steel. You can solder to them but you need a very hot soldering iron. I've got a mains one that won't admit to what the wattage is but the longer you leave it on the hotter it gets. After half an hour you can damn near braze with it, that did it but I've used crimps instead before. Proper W crimp ones though not these horrible squash flat things.
Despite everyone saying it's an awful job, I've now done three lots and the last time it took me under half an hour. You need to remove the centre console side panel (one self tapper at the bottom then slide it down and out) and the panel below the steering column (4 screws). I find that putting the suspension on high and then kneeling on the floor next to the car gives the best view of them. No need to drain the cooling system as all you are going to lose is the contents of the heater matrix so a Tupperware sandwich box stolen from the kitchen when he missus isn't looking is ample to drain it into when you undo the clamp screw.
You'll need a long, and I mean LONG, 12" or longer, number 2 Pozidrive screwdriver to slacken off the clamp screw. If the screw doesn't want to slacken off, try tightening a fraction first and then undo it. Don't take it all the way out, leave a couple of turns on the end (it's a very long screw) so the pipes can be separated but don't flop around everywhere. Take the old O rings out (which will probably come out in pieces), make sure both sides are clean, dunk te new ones in anti-freeze, slip then on and push the two parts back together. If you give the pipes a bit of a wiggle as you do the screw back up, it'll make sure they are seated correctly.
Rears are dead easy but fronts aren't too bad. Getting at the pipe is a lot easier and although RAVE says to remove the wheelarch liner, if you pull it out to get in there and jam a lump of wood or a WD40 can in there, you don't need to.
Are you sure it's the EAS compressor you can hear? I have to put my hand on the box to tell if the EAS compressor is running or not but the ABS pump can be heard easily. When you turn the ignition on after it has been left overnight, it will run for around 30 seconds, the EAS compressor will usually run for much longer than that. If the pump wasn't working you'd know about it, you need to use both feet and all your weight on the pedal just to get it to slow down.
Just turn the ignition on and you should hear the pump running, mines a noisy bugger so, like Orangebean says, it can be heard while driving. If the accumulator is OK then you should be able to press the brake pedal 3 or 4 times before the pump cuts in, less than that, particularly if it cuts in every time you use the brakes, means it's on it's way out.
Very good point, I've also noticed that. With the engine running only some connect, others need the ignition on but engine not running. That's my only complaint with the Nanocom, there isn't really any actual step by step instructions with it.
Not sure what the time interval is between each line on the sheet but both lambdas are reading rich until line 85 (with bank 1 showing leaner than bank 2 all the time) and they don't start to switch between full lean and full rich until line 109. That suggests to me that for some reason it is running rich initially for some reason.
In all honesty I've never taken much notice of it and don't really hear any increase in noise but it must be working. On Monday I did about 600 miles at 80 mph with a couple of tonnes on a trailer on the back and then immediately stopped in stationary traffic in Paris. With the heat soak I would have thought that would be the time when things would start to get a bit warm but nothing seemed to change.
What does the Nano say you O2 sensors are doing when it is running rough? Are they switch or hard over one way, I would suspect rich. The other thing you could try is disconnecting the purge filter solenoid valve. Every so often mine will run really rough on initial start with it either idling very low or not at all and I have to keep a bit of throttle on to stop it from dying. I can either ignore it al let it settle down or switch off and restart when it is fine. The way it runs feels like a really rich mixture but as I'm on a single point LPG system I'm already on gas at that point so my theory is that the purge valve opens and I've got petrol, or at least petrol vapour, going in there as well as gas.
12mA is about normal so it is going to sleep. It might be being woken up regularly which would cause the battery to drain though. PWM is pulse width modulation so basically it is a fast square wave with the on period varying to give different average voltage.
Bit more difficult for us as there is no certificate in existence for our stuff but it can still be done. Bikes are a piece of piss in comparison. We bought a 1967 Triumph Bonneville as a container filler last year. I tried to get an MoT on it here to register it and there was so much slop in the front forks there was no way I was going to be able to bodge it through a ticket. So it went to France unregistered and that was the easiest of anything we've ever done.
Workshop is for the cars we import. For the last 5 years or so we've been importing cars from the States into the UK. I do the bare minimum to get them through an MoT so they can be registered here and then transport them down there. Once there they get stripped down to nothing and fully restored. As they have a UK V5, then they can be transferred to French plates, without that, they are an import from outside the EU and simply can't be registered without an EU Certificate of Conformity which most of the stuff we deal with is simply too old and pre-dates that scheme. We started off with 1950s and 1960s Yank stuff, but then got offered a 1958 Austin Healey so bought that. Since then it's been more Healeys, E Type Jags and just recently, Volvo P1800s. Values of the Volvo coupés is rocketing and they are so well put together they are dead easy to strip down to nothing and put back together. There's no pattern parts available either but everything can still be got from Volvo so actually fits, unlike the crap pattern parts for a Jag for instance.
My mate moved down there nearly 25 years ago and I've been running up and down for various reasons since then so am well versed in the French (lack of) rules of the road. The old Priorite a droit makes things interesting but even a Frenchman tends to bottle out of pulling out in front of a Range Rover with a couple of tonnes on the back. I think the best one I've found is the roundabout, or more correctly, the circular road, around the Arc de Triumphe at the end of the Champes Elysee in Paris. That is treated as a roundabout but with traffic entering having right of way over traffic already going around. Gets really interesting when one exit is blocked and people still try to use a bit of road that already has someone parked on it. It amused me when they started putting in proper roundabouts with huge vous n'avez pas la priorite signs, no shit, there's a white line about a foot wide painted on the road!
I tend to ignore most of the rules of the road when over there. I'd have lost my licence years ago if I did the same over here. You're not allowed in the 3rd lane if towing a trailer bigger that 750kgs, but there's no way I'm going to sit in a queue behind a convoy of trucks. I've been flashed by speed cameras more times that I care to think about and surely those yellow lines at the side of the road mean it's parking for visitors only?
Next trip is for 1st/2nd of April but I'll be flying down that time just for a change. Luton to Nice on Easyjet at £25 each way, can't be beaten.
Richard
Internal problem on the power board then. Marty on here does refurbs and BeCM repairs. Have a look at his posts in the Electrikery bit and you'll find his contact details (and his webshop).
But you didn't give me it, I seem to recall there was some folding stuff that changed hands too..... The diff in the axle we took off was probably fine, it turns out as it was the rear that was making the howling noise due to a very notchy feeling nose bearing. I've put it to one side and may well send that to Ashcrofts so I've have a known good one. I may do the same with the spare transfer box I've got sitting here too.
My last trip, setting off Thursday evening and back home Monday night, was 2,058 miles. I'm approaching 311,000 on the clock now. Only another 9,000 and I'll hit the half million kilometres mark.
Hi, have you sorted your electrical gremlin yet? If you do have a BeCM problem, Marty is your man.
I was over there last weekend, in December and September, so if you ever spot a white, R reg P38, usually with a car transporter trailer on the back, that'll be me then. Running on LPG makes mine pretty damn cheap to run and there's nothing else that tows like a V8 P38. A friend came with me this trip and she was nervous that she'd never driven with anything bigger than a small box trailer on the back. After a few minutes she admitted she'd forgotten the trailer was there. Coming back on Monday we were sitting at 80 mph most of the way with an Inocentti Mini Cooper on the trailer (only got flashed twice though). I found a UK reg L322 trundling along at about 65 for some unknown reason and he looked quite astonished when I hurtled past him!
The best part about Cannes is Cresci La Pizza on the corner by the harbour (next to the police station), purveyors of the best pizzas in Europe. Antibes is a nice place, our workshop is just down the road from the huge Carrefour hypermarket next to Junc 44 of the A8 and when finished there for the day, a visit to Le Pimms bar in Antibes is where we can be found. Nice old town is very nice too. My mate lives about 6 miles inland from Nice, up in the mountains where the Alps run down to meet the sea, just outside Tourrette Levens.
I must admit, I love driving over there, hardly any traffic compared to the UK, and the French seem to know what lane discipline is. Since I got myself a telepeage unit to stick on the inside of the windscreen, I don't have to stop, leap out of the car and run round to feed the machine with money or plastic (with the width of the trailer I can't pull up close enough to the machine to be able to clamber across the front of the car). It's knocked half an hour off my journey time purely by not having to stop in a queue.
That's a coincidence, I drove through Dijon about 48 hours ago....... I regularly drive to Antibes (halfway between Cannes and Nice on the Cote d'Azure) and got back yesterday morning from another of my runs. Always in the P38, nearly always with a couple of tonnes on a trailer on the back but she'll still cruise at 80 mph.
Sorry for the delay lads, just back from another of my European 2,000 mile round trips. The diagram doesn't really go into any detail on how the LED is dimmed so no idea whether it is fed with a low voltage or a PWM signal. Pulling it out and sticking a meter across it is about the only way you'd find that out. I don't see why you couldn't hang another LED in parallel with the one that's already there but if you wanted to get really clever, you could use the low voltage (or PWM signal) to switch a transistor and allow that to switch whatever you wanted it to switch.
Marty may have delved into it a bit more but he's away working at the moment.
Right, got the pads and shocks changed before it started raining. I'll blame Marty for me spending money when not needed as it was him that said one of my front shocks felt a bit weak. Well they ain't! No sloppy area and just the same damping as the new ones I've just fitted. So if anyone needs a pair of Boge front shocks, I've got a perfectly good pair here going spare........
In the past they've been good but not perfect. Order something from Rimmers and it will definitely arrive next day but they tend to be a bit more expensive (quite a bit more sometimes) than Island. Island may take an extra day. This time I ordered the parts at 11pm on Monday, they were shipped on Tuesday and arrived with me at about 10am on Wednesday so can't say fairer than that. Well packaged too. I wasn't in any great rush as I knew I wouldn't get chance to fit them until this weekend anyway.