So I’m confused… many who know me would say this is easily done! Yesterday, I cut all the cable ties and laid out the loom. The plan was to collect the wires into their circuits, separating out those that won’t be needed. The BCU came with a pin out diagram, basically a spreadsheet listing the …
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Wiring Labelling Done
A couple more hours and I now have the loom fully labelled: I’ve used the codes from the pin out diagram and the labelled and will keep the diagram with the car as a reference. I thought this would be the most logical approach and it helped me to start to get my head around …
Getting back to it…
Let’s hope that it isn’t a ten month wait for the next post! New job and a thrice weekly commute into London have rather distracted me. Anyway, started to label up the new loom which plugs into my SimTech BCU. It’s been so long since any progress, I’ve misplaced the extra cassettes for my labelling …
Progress…
Progress… well progress, if progress means pulling it apart some more! It’s looking less and less like a car… eek. Given that a full rewire is underway the scuttle needed to come off along with the various aluminium panels holding the wiring and electronics. I got fully stuck into this task this morning with a …
Back to work…
Well it’s been far too long but I have now reached the light at the end of the proverbial tunnel. It’s been some time since my last post… well over two years and the car has sat untouched for this period. The hiatus was caused by a relative short notice change in living conditions. I …
Body Logic
On the advice of a member of a kitcar group I’m part of, I’m looking at a BCU. Should be a relatively straight forward way to make the electronic system bullet proof. I’m scheduling a discussion with their sales teams this week. Only I could change the job of trouble shooting a faulty hazard switch …
A decision looming…
I think that I’m going to commit to doing something a little drastic(ish). I don’t think I know enough about electrics and wiring to fix two (or now three problems). The original hazard problem remains (i.e. right hand side lights not engaging), I have a vampiric charge which flattens the battery when it’s not disconnect, …
Electrics!!
So I popped down to the garage this morning and whilst I was there I replaced the spade connector I accidently pulled off last weekend and ‘finished’ replacing the hazard switch. Here’s the situation update: Right hand side indicators still not flashing when hazard switch engaged. Left hand indicators now not flashing when indicator switch …
Some light fabrication
A little bit of light fabrication this morning to make an aluminium template panel to cover the hole in the dash and hold the buttons. If I like it, I’ll keep it… if not I’ll use the carbon fibre panel I made earlier. I masked off the aluminium’s sheet, used the in snips to cut …
Winter plans (continued)
So I’m going to change how I do the blog a bit… I’m not keeping on top of writing up on the pages so I’m going to post a little more. When I’ve completed a job I’ll pull all of the posts together into a page for posterities sake. I was down at the garage …
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