What I didn't do to my Rover 75 MGZT today - Page 19

bobthebuilder · 4th March 2016, 15:50

I didn't attach my funky new smiley number plate after the previous one fell off somewhere

marinabrian · 5th March 2016, 18:11

I didn't do anything to any of my fleet today, however...............

After receiving a phone call from Keith (KC13661) I booled across to have a look at a non starting diesel automatic belonging to his son in law.

T4 was pointing toward a duff cam sensor, so we swapped this for the one from Keith's car, and the car started and ran briefly.

After the cutout, some strange fault codes were noted, so a replacement ECM was coded to the car.

Same result

So out with the multimeter and a bit of investigation showed only 1.2 Volts at the red and white wire supplying the cam sensor HP pump regulator, MAF and glowplug relay.

A quick decision to push one end of the multimeter probe into the nearest part of this circuit, ie pin 12 of the glow plug relay connector and hold the other end onto the battery +VE.

The car started without hesitation

So a quick Frabtel repair involving a length of wire from the fused side of F1 in the engine compartment fusebox directly into pin 12 of the glowplug relay was put into place.

Success, a temporary fix, as it was piddling down with sleet at the time, and a proper more permanent fix to follow, something I will leave in the hands of Keith to sort out.

There you go, the moral of the story here is although T4 can point you in the right direction, sometimes all that is required is a humble multimeter and some bangernomic fixes

Brian

Mike Noc · 5th March 2016, 18:26

Good to hear a bit of bangernomics did the trick Bri.

Kept this one going for a few races too.

klarzy · 5th March 2016, 22:00

Today I did not put a new back box and 4 new hard brake lines on shadow.... But my tame MOT man did....

marinabrian · 17th March 2016, 18:05

Well, I decided to employ some Frabtel (TM) technology, anybody have any ideas what this is for..........

Brian

EastPete · 17th March 2016, 18:10

Bleeding out your clutch master cylinder before hooking it up to a pre-filled LUK slave ?

Pete

marinabrian · 17th March 2016, 18:15

Quote:

Originally Posted by EastPete

Bleeding out your clutch master cylinder before hooking it up to a pre-filled LUK slave ?

Pete

Give that man a gold star

Exactly right

trikey · 17th March 2016, 21:01

Quote:

Originally Posted by marinabrian

Give that man a gold star

Exactly right

Not happy just doing a clutch change eh Bri?

Any excuse for a bit of frabbling

marinabrian · 17th March 2016, 21:24

Quote:

Originally Posted by trikey

Not happy just doing a clutch change eh Bri?

Any excuse for a bit of frabbling

Well I certainly didn't want to contaminate the new slave with old fluid from the master Andy.

This will become a part of the toolbox for the time I have to do Chris's clutch, I've already primed her that she has to take the ZT for a spin to see what the clutch should be like, not like the ultra heavy original one on her car

Brian

Mike Noc · 18th March 2016, 06:45

Quote:

Originally Posted by marinabrian

Well, I decided to employ some Frabtel (TM) technology, anybody have any ideas what this is for..........

Brian

You could always combine that with the GhettoTech (TM) easy fill system Brian.

5th March 2016, 18:26	#183
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5th March 2016, 18:11	#182
marinabrian MG ZT Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne Posts: 20,151 Thanks: 3,565 Thanked 10,837 Times in 5,718 Posts	I didn't do anything to any of my fleet today, however............... After receiving a phone call from Keith (KC13661) I booled across to have a look at a non starting diesel automatic belonging to his son in law. T4 was pointing toward a duff cam sensor, so we swapped this for the one from Keith's car, and the car started and ran briefly. After the cutout, some strange fault codes were noted, so a replacement ECM was coded to the car. Same result So out with the multimeter and a bit of investigation showed only 1.2 Volts at the red and white wire supplying the cam sensor HP pump regulator, MAF and glowplug relay. A quick decision to push one end of the multimeter probe into the nearest part of this circuit, ie pin 12 of the glow plug relay connector and hold the other end onto the battery +VE. The car started without hesitation So a quick Frabtel repair involving a length of wire from the fused side of F1 in the engine compartment fusebox directly into pin 12 of the glowplug relay was put into place. Success, a temporary fix, as it was piddling down with sleet at the time, and a proper more permanent fix to follow, something I will leave in the hands of Keith to sort out. There you go, the moral of the story here is although T4 can point you in the right direction, sometimes all that is required is a humble multimeter and some bangernomic fixes Brian

17th March 2016, 18:10	#186
EastPete Posted a thing or two Rover 75 CDTi Classic saloon, MGB GT, Skoda Yeti Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Ramsey, Cambs Posts: 1,874 Thanks: 626 Thanked 635 Times in 430 Posts	Bleeding out your clutch master cylinder before hooking it up to a pre-filled LUK slave ? Pete