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Post by valhalla on Nov 11, 2019 23:08:12 GMT 1
I may have a pcm for one of those, you can program it in with the gear you out have if required I very nearly "made the call" on the PCM over the weekend..... Having got to the PCM this lunchtime (a long story that involves lots of shuffling dead vehicles around to fit my current favourite tractor in front of the workshop doors on the spead), something just didn't add-up.
Having played with the tractor on and off in the driving sleet for a couple of hours, I came back to the Transit, and started "going nuclear" with the wire-tracing and continuity testing. Eventually it dawned on me where the problem lay; the green/blue common feed wire (I originally thought it was the black/blue, but I was wrong, Ford just chose to use the same wire for two different signal functions.....  ) was great between sensors, great back to the engine harness multiway, and just beyond, but nothing whatsoever back at the PCM multiways. Almost like the green/blue wire goes into the fusebox, goes through F14 (I think) which is a blown 10A fuse, then back out to the PCM....the same f***ing colour!!!! 
Now I'm on the scent, I might even get this van running (tractor permitting) by tomorrow evening.  |
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Post by valhalla on Nov 13, 2019 14:28:23 GMT 1
I got an hour on this van this morning.
Lots of priming, then clear fault code, then several cranks on a good battery, eventually after a re-prime on the squeezy bulb the thing fired-up and settled down to an idle.
If ever there was a candidate for the accolade "Dagenham Dustbin", it would have to be this van. Nothing about it is engineered correctly. The ability of the new (Mann) fuel filter to extract air from the feed to the CR pump is minimal, so either the LP pick-up is holed, or the the fuel level is a bit low (1/4 gauge), or the return side of the filter is unable to blow the air back to the tank.
It still runs, so I'm not looking a gift-horse in the mouth. I'll put the van back together after lunch, swap the battery back after a decent recharge, then drive it out to somewhere far away. It needs a new head-gasket more than my Focus, and I'm surprised the expansion bottle hasn't taken-off from under the bonnet yet...... I might even suggest to the owner that it gets a good top-up of fuel while he considers the future of this van, which might keep it somewhere near reliable, and probably a new battery to obviate the risk of it blowing anything electrical again.
Hmmmm.......
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Post by chippie on Nov 13, 2019 15:36:49 GMT 1
I got an hour on this van this morning.
the thing fired-up and settled down to an idle.
If ever there was a candidate for the accolade "Dagenham Dustbin", it would have to be this van.
I'll put the van back together after lunch, then drive it out to somewhere far away and pour a gallon of unleaded over it and add a box of Swann Vestas......
I might even tip off the local fire brigade
Hmmmm......
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Post by remmington on Nov 13, 2019 18:04:54 GMT 1
I got an hour on this van this morning. Lots of priming, then clear fault code, then several cranks on a good battery, eventually after a re-prime on the squeezy bulb the thing fired-up and settled down to an idle. If ever there was a candidate for the accolade "Dagenham Dustbin", it would have to be this van. Nothing about it is engineered correctly. The ability of the new (Mann) fuel filter to extract air from the feed to the CR pump is minimal, so either the LP pick-up is holed, or the the fuel level is a bit low (1/4 gauge), or the return side of the filter is unable to blow the air back to the tank. It still runs, so I'm not looking a gift-horse in the mouth. I'll put the van back together after lunch, swap the battery back after a decent recharge, then drive it out to somewhere far away. It needs a new head-gasket more than my Focus, and I'm surprised the expansion bottle hasn't taken-off from under the bonnet yet...... I might even suggest to the owner that it gets a good top-up of fuel while he considers the future of this van, which might keep it somewhere near reliable, and probably a new battery to obviate the risk of it blowing anything electrical again. Hmmmm....... Whatever you charge the owner - it will not be enuf!  |
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Post by valhalla on Nov 13, 2019 19:01:59 GMT 1
Whatever you charge the owner - it will not be enuf! He's coming to pick it up tonight. Like they always do, the customer appeared at my shoulder just as I was putting the last screw into the intercooler duct.
Having watched me swap the old battery back onto the van, his comment was that it was starting "much better than before". So that's a relief.
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Post by studabear on Nov 13, 2019 23:22:02 GMT 1
Well done on finding the wiring issue Valhalla, great work!
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) was great between sensors, great back to the engine harness multiway, and just beyond, but nothing whatsoever back at the PCM multiways. Almost like the green/blue wire goes into the fusebox, goes through F14 (I think) which is a blown 10A fuse, then back out to the PCM....the same f***ing colour!!!! 
