Help needed ASAP

[Guest boostin]

Unplug it and see what happens then.

[Guest keltik]

If all the dash warning lights are glowing (oil pressure and charge etc) then thats a sure sign the regulator is scrood....however it wouldnt explain the electronic fail thats occuring even with the engine not running.

[nt_a_foz]

nope oil lights etc are still working..

On the dash just hte speedo, revs, arent working and airbag light is on...

[Guest boostin]

Def sounds like a popped fuse somewhere.

[nt_a_foz]

checked them like 3 times though haha.

how do you check the big engine bay ones ...

and weird the windows just starte dgoing again?

[DRFVDR]

How do u check the fuses

[nt_a_foz]

i know how to check if a fuse is blown

what i meant was actually i dont know what i meant to mean come to htink of it lol

[DRFVDR]

I am serious do u remove them and check or do u use a test light

[Guest boostin]

If you use a test light, use one with an incandescent bulb, not a LED. The LED ones don't draw enough current and can make bad fuses appear ok. Been there, done that, confused camper.

[nt_a_foz]

oh ok thought you were taking the piss.. used a test light as well as pulling out and checking visaully..

Right so just put a fresh battery on and started car...

Voltage across battery is 12.3-12.4 odd volts then when you turn lights etc on it drops to round 11.7 odd volts.

Swapped alternators and got the same readings

We then unplugged power to alternator and still got the same reading

SOOOO would appear teh signal to alternator is failing???

Not really helping us get any closer to the mass electrical fault

[Guest]

something is unpluged by the sounds of it?

-smurff

[nt_a_foz]

but what though haha...

The only plugs are the main loom plugs by the battery and we have pulled them out cleaned them and put back in....

Cant think of any other "main" plugs we would of removed in the process

[Guest]

urrm. . . dont know what you have done

-smurff

[nt_a_foz]

swapped everything bolt on off the original motor onto the rev d motor and plugged in haha..

[Guest]

which engine loom?

-smurff

[nt_a_foz]

original one as the rev d ones are differnet..

[Guest]

ggrrr. . . its got to be something so easy

-smurff

[nt_a_foz]

i know thats why its pissing me right off haha

As far as i know everything was working when we got the car....

We only used the rev d long block rest was from original motor..

As far as i can see everything is back as it should be...

No doubt at all its something silly..

So at currently the airbag light is on, rev and odo dont work, light showing where gearlever is selected not wroking also, heater fan, dash light dimmer, temp gauge and i think thats all off the top of my head

[DRFVDR]

heheehe man it so sounds like a fuse

either Alt or ecu

does the alternator get its signal straight from battery or from ECU ?????

other thing I would check is check fuse continuity using a test light on the back of the fuse box, thinking of bad/corroded contacts

[Guest keltik]

Alternator control is via the ECU on these...or at least theres a wire for it

[nt_a_foz]

Well well well..

The route of the problem has been discovered...

When we originally couldnt get the car to start (wrong cam, crank pullys) my flatty pulled apart behind the fuse box under steering wheel.

He then "put back together" but apparently didnt do the bolt upholding the plug in place.

Which in term left dodgy connections or no connections..

Soon as he tightened that up (We were doing a mass double check everything tonight) it worked fine...

So is all sweet..

;D

[Guest]

hahaha, something so easy. good you found it

-smurff

[nt_a_foz]

If he hadnt of checked what he had done i might of had al ook and undone then done up but never worked out what i did to fix lol

[Guest]

lol, thats true, would drive you nuts aswell lol

-smurff