13.4v still its the best. over 13.5v is ideal.

same goes for the pump

some cars struggly to get 12v

 

rstoughy


Mate do what Damo said, mine did exactly the same! when you check the meter readings off the ECU it was telling us that the air temp sensor was failing.

Had Me, Gadget, Mark & Ahmed at Grove miffed.............Till ahmed was fooking about with the loom and Mark glanced over to see the ECU module program on his laptop going crazy!

Been fine ever since!

I'll bet a tenner with you its that!

 

Franco & Damo

Just spoke to my local ex Ford electrician so he will pop round on Monday and have a butchers at it for me

He has also said that these are likely to be the problem


Downside is i need to drive from Aberdeen to Cumbria this weekend off boost

 

Do a bodge on it now!! Use bullit connectors! But make sure you solder afterwards!

 

It was all the time!

 

Yes CossieIain on here has one available, He bought my spare to fault find, but was his ecu at fault

 

Hi

mine did the same things after rebuild, changing all the sensores, plugs, fuel pump,......

but only the fuse box was the problem
on high boost i had only 6- 7V on my coil with the old one!

MAX

 

Checked that live feed to the ECU tonight so it came back with a reading of 13.65v so that seems to be ok.

while i was in about the ECU i thought id check and see what chip the car was running.
Has a GGRL2V8P8 Guessing that is a GGR Level 2 version 8?

Any ideas what this should be power wise? i thought around the 280 mark

Franco

The bodge shall take place on Sat

 

have you checked your lambda sensor mate?? as said my car is off to the bloke up the road first thing in the morning to be plugged in!!! hopeing its something simple

 

Unpluged the lambda tonight but it made very little odds if any

I am waiting with baited breath to hear what your diagnostic check comes back with

 

bloke put it on mate and said the eprom was playing up or something to that extent??? so he said it could be the chip, yet i removed it tonight and it still did the same so i am unsure what it could be, next is to do what damo suggested about the soldering of the wires, and also i am going to order a lambda sensor as it works best when thats unplugged so that still maybe my problem...

so not much progress from me!!!

 

Thats a shame M8

I have a guy coming round next week to get my loom done for me as i wouldnt win any prize's for my soldering hopefully it will sort it out

 

Ok fingers crossed i might have found the problem

Removed the rear bumper to check the pump wiring as it was all showing good up the front end. What i found was a very very corrodid connection. Tried to pull it apart slightly so that i could get the meter probes on and it fell apart in my hands
Stuck it back together and fired up the car and am getting just over 12V ish on the pump side of the connection.
I have had to cut around 1ft of cable back on the earth side to find good clean cable so i will solder in some fresh ones tomorrow night and see how it is after that.

I also had the Auto Spark round so multi plugs on the inner wing will be no more next week

Couple of pics

 

strange how some of these cars have really crap wiring and some dont,did my pump last week and the wiring/connections are virtually as good as the day they were fitted,hope it sorts it out for you

 

Cheers

Funny how all the other wiring on the car is perfect. Someone has been there before though as loads of insulating tape wraped round everything

 

You were lucky if that is the cause of missfire, as THAT is prime culprit for a meltdown mate!!



Funnily enough mine were as clean as a whistle to...... !!
They are no more now though, gone to the wiring bin in the sky

 

It just where the wiring sits though tucked up behind bumper subjected to all the elements

Remember to run a fresh earth wire to somewhere in the boot u don't need to have it connected to the original earth loom
or use both the original and a fresh earth wire u should find once you rewired it you should get a voltage reading above 13v if not u need to run yaself a seperate feed from battery and a relay setup

just outta interest has the car got an uprated pump fitted or not?

 

£ucking not half Damo, looks like the missfire has saved me yet another engine rebuild


silky16v

Going to run a couple of fresh wires tonight and see what happens

Have a new 023 pump going in anyway

Nice to meet you on Sunday

 

Ok update,

Soldered in some wires tonight and got a reading of 12.7v. Better than it was but still down on what everyone has been saying.

Took the car for a blast and the missfire is still there

Once my new pump & filter arrives i will run a fresh wire from the Batt and fit a relay.

oh well the hunt goes on, loom multi plugs next and then we are looking at changing out the chip.

 

Got the car up in the air tonight and soaked all the tank strap bolts with Duck Oil ready for removing over the weekend.

Found this from the pump to the filter, looks like someone has been in here before as well.

Whats the bets i find an uprated pump in there?

 

What's the bet that your fuel filter needs to bet changed... a high flow fuel pump is useless if the fuel can't go through the filter

 

Don't frett, the filter will be changed at the same time as the pump

As i have had the car for less than 1yr i'm finding things all the time

 

yep,youll deffo have a gr a type pump in there with having aeroquip from the sender/ pump fitting kit

 

Good!
When you have fueling prob the filter is one of the first thing to change if you don't know how old he is. Everybody start to think electrical or mecanical when sometimes it's quite simple

 

july1

Its amazing that people will always replace plugs, Eng oil / filter ect but leave things like the fuel filter Dont think i've ever bought a cossie which has had a new one fitted

 

As above, ditch the filter before doing anything else.

You will defo have a bosch pump of sorts in there

 

Damo,

I have purchased a 023 pump so i will fit that anyway so i dont need to go in there again

Dropped the tank and filter out over the weekend and drained the fuel.

Found that the car already has a 033 fitted has some sort of foam wraped around it but it fell apart once i tried to remove it. Im guessing its only there for noise???

New parts should arrive today / tomorrow so i will get it put back together and see what happens. Hopefully i have found my problem looking at the filter.


Filter has not been changed for a long long time




Tank out and drained




033 pump removed

 

New filter and 023 pump fitted and yes the missfire is still there

 

You know what you gotta do

 

Hope you get it sorted out soon, there cant be much more to try

 

Damo,

Just waiting for the sparkie to get back in touch. He has been busy this week so as it was a casher i was put to the back of the que

 

How you sorting this, i might sort mine out seeing as the rear bumpers at the sprayers!

Damo?

 

Franco

I just removed the plug altogether and cut the wires back into the boot.

Soldered in some nice fresh wire and protected with some heat shink.

 

Right so let me get this right?!?! You've removed the plug completely and they now reside in the boot?

 

If you cut the plug off and solder it together, there is no plug left to "reside" in the boot

 

No shite sherlock! So what i'm saying is SHOULD I CONNECT A NEW STYLE MULTI PLUG TO IT!

Capiche?

 

Listen Watson, young student... Where the £cuk did I mention another plug

 

God this is a love / hate relationship we share! Righty ho she's getting cut and soldered tonight!

 

PS



Tosser.

 

PMSL @ you two

Franco

Reason i had to cut so much wire out was that the earth was black, cut it back a couple of inches at a time untill i found clean wire. That just so happened to be inside the car so i just trimmed the live to the same place and ran in 2 fresh wires the same length job done.