Jeremy
Well done!
This is interesting. Do you know where your ecu takes its supply from?
I have simply copied Nigels advice to get my engine running, and have taken a permanent live straight from the battery to the engine wiring loom, so there should be no question of irregular supply.
However, Nigel advised I might find an issue with not generating a switched earth for the fuel pump relay. Do you know how your sparky dealt with this?
If you have the ability to fault diagnose your engine, does this mean your sparky wired in the on on board computer? How did he deal with the data transfer that went off to the instrument binnacle?
I think Nigel has ignored these: I certainly have. I thought I would not be able to make use of the diagnostic port. However, you have shown that it can be done, and is very useful too.
I would love to know how your sparky achieved this?
And well done again.
As for the IVA gauntlet, I've already promised my wife I'll get my Cabrio on the road this year, so that is enough of an incentive for me!!!!!!!! And you've got a little bundle of joy coming along, which you don't realise yet, but means your whole life gets turned upside down, and put on hold for the next 15 years!!!!!! No playing with kit cars for you.............there'll be a nappies to change and thousands of other things to do before playing with the Sportster!!!!
You'll love it all though.
Mike
jeremy wrote:
Monday 30th.....the sweet sound of a straight 6 roared to life and growled like a wild beast...as many know, I have had a problem with spluttering, backfires and misses, poor idle, not taking throttle, engine sounding sick as a pig.Dianostics kept pulling faults such as icv, tps ,02 sensor, aril intake sensor and maf. As my engine is 20 years old, e36 2.5 i, I tried to work through all of the above, testing all components. I have replaced some of the above(if not all), maybe even new coil packs,and still the same problem.Last week I removed the swirl pot from the equation, and also had my injectors refurbed, and rebuilt the manifold with all new gaskets.Started up on Saturday,same problem.....but this time diagnostics showed only 1 fault code 26,control unit supply voltage..... battery good,check charging..alternator charging..then not, then charging, then not, a faulty plug connector the culprit......fixed this and then......sweet music,oh so sweet(don't ask how much that music cost)!The ecu was not operating correctly due to fluctuating voltage supply...onward and upward.....mike shall we try and iva this summer(gauntlet thrown down)!
