hello, wel i got this van about 3 years ago as an unfinished project, it needs the rst petrol tank fitting but first ill need to get the metal filler pipe bent, but the main problem is that nothing electrical works, wipers,lights, heater fan, is there a main ignition relay that might need changeing, ive checked all the fuses and they are ok,
the starter motor runs ok on the inition and have had it running, had to conect the fuel pump to a switch and have the fuel pipes running into a petrol can and it run very rich or not at all when i tried to make it run leaner, ill try the new injectors next time

 

mate i have to say that i'm loving the sig pic, the blue against the gold is really nice.

regarding your electrics, i think there are 2 main relays, white (fuel) and pink (ignition or was silver on s1) and it's the pink one that usually needs replacing.
if i were you i would sort out the tank, filler etc get it plumbed in properly then get it to run right, testing it with fuel pipes in petrol cans etc isn't gonna run right anyway

good luck with it mate looks cool

 

thanks, the pic below shows a purpley coloured relay, is that the one, yes ill try to get the tank on, but is it easy to bend the pipe if i heat it up,
yes that was my old van after i edited it with a photoshop type software

 

yipee, after all this time ive finaly got the electrics working, was a simple earth wire that i needed to connect by the battery, lights, fans, wipers, everything is working,
i need a new petrol filler pipe so i can mount the petrol tank, has anyone got one laying around, mine is too rusty inside, and ill have to get the pipe bent so it will line up with the s2 tank, any advise anyone?

 

ebay mate

 

or your local scrappy cut one of a petrol escort then get sum silicon hose to join them or you can buy a diesel tank and put a petrol sender in it

 

thanks guys, i would cut the pipe and join it with silicon hose but the filler pipe has a small pipe inside it that would need conecting some how, its there to stop the petrol coming back out when filling, i realy want to use the s2 tank

 

ill get a video up when i get it running, last time was about 3 years ago and it run like a dogs arse, so should run alot better no the electrics are connected

 

just had the van running, and seams to be running on 3 cilinders, im hopeing its just a blocked injector, so has anyone got a pic of how to bridge the fuel pump relay to make it stay on? ill pop all the injectors out and put each into a bottle and push the paddle down,
or it could be a ring or a valve gone, when i get some oil ill do a compresion test, is the high and low limit 110/140?

 

changed the injectors today, runs alot smoother, it ticks over on 2000rpm on start up and after about 3 minuits the revs drop then it cuts out, how do i make it tick over lower on start up so i can turn the idle up so it dosnt cut out

 

well today i changed the fuel filter, and its still the same "runs too rich or dosnt run" next ill replace the fuel accumulator i think its called, and if its still the same ill put the fuel pottometer on that i have spare that used to be on my other rst van, ill phone the escort spares place in bilston on monday to see if they have a spare accumulator

 

update, i took all the injectors out and put them all in a bottle still connected to the fuel system and made the fuelpump run constantly, one of the injectors contantly run while the rest was off until i push the flap down, so i swapped the injector over to another output, so its not the injector its the output thats dodgy,
on that i swapped the fuel metering unit to the one i had on my old van, and guess what, there no fuel comming out the one output completly dry at the output iven if i push the padle all the way down so that the fuel blasts out the other injectors,
grrrrr any advise?

 

i managed to unblock the blockade from the metering unit, i undid the one bolt on the side that does nothing, then i let the fuel pump run for 10 seconds and that did the trick, its running the best its run so far but stil very very rich, ive turned the misture down but the battery is flat now and nearly no fuel left, i could do with getting the injectors cleaned somwhere as they arnt spraying an even mist

 

quik video of it running and spitting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdakcnJ_o1M