Hi All,
Mentioned on KimB that she had made me decide to start work on my little car again, had been looking for a donner car, another Landy with either rover v8 3.5 or 3.9, this was to go into my Range Rover.
My car started life as a 2door 100inch v8 3.5 manual 4x4 in 1979, in 1982 it was registered as a 4 door 3.5 manual 6x6 and its now 149inches long. During the cars life it was changed from petrol v8 3.5 to diesel VM 3.6 cylinder, several vm 4 cylinders and a perkins 3.9 non turbo.
Now back to now.
I acquired a road legal disco with 3.9 v8 EFI, auto but when it arrived realised it was LPG. What a result and a very good price.
Now have done the welding that was needed, the petrol engine is now in the 6x6, all new clutch, master cylinder and slave cylinder and the efi loom is still attached to the engine, but needs to be wired up.
My problem is the wiring on the 6x6 even though it started off for a petrol ie have leads for coil etc, it don't anymore, and my problem is trying to see what wires are doing what, looked through a manual and have found most of the wires via the colour coding, but on one a white lead was happy because the book says its from the ignition to the Coil, but just behind the engine is a multi block and when you follow the wire back its been cut on the ignition side, think we have chased it back and now found it.
Now for all you Auto electricians and brainy people, but I wanted to confirm all the wires I have do or go where they say they should, so I fitted a battery only to the earth, and with each individual lead put them on the positive, the bundle did what we were expecting, ie the Oil Temp gauge moved, the voltage stabiliser clicked etc, but the last wire I tried was the white lead that we believe goes to the ignition. (we are sure it does, have followed it through).
It sparked, so tried again it sparked, then turned the igniton on fine, had the ignition, oil and water light, but after that every time we tried a wire that we had already tried and was happy with it now activates the oil light and the voltage stabiliser.
Before someone suggests using an am meter haven't got one and no idea how to use it? someone has said sounds like a bad earth.
I've still got to wire up the EFI, and there is no rush car needs inner, outer wings, bonnet, front doors scuttle, brakes and clutch bleeding, oh and change the high pressure fuel pump and pipes, wanted to take the car to billing Land rover show this year??????
All that Kim's fault!
Mentioned on KimB that she had made me decide to start work on my little car again, had been looking for a donner car, another Landy with either rover v8 3.5 or 3.9, this was to go into my Range Rover.
My car started life as a 2door 100inch v8 3.5 manual 4x4 in 1979, in 1982 it was registered as a 4 door 3.5 manual 6x6 and its now 149inches long. During the cars life it was changed from petrol v8 3.5 to diesel VM 3.6 cylinder, several vm 4 cylinders and a perkins 3.9 non turbo.
Now back to now.
I acquired a road legal disco with 3.9 v8 EFI, auto but when it arrived realised it was LPG. What a result and a very good price.
Now have done the welding that was needed, the petrol engine is now in the 6x6, all new clutch, master cylinder and slave cylinder and the efi loom is still attached to the engine, but needs to be wired up.
My problem is the wiring on the 6x6 even though it started off for a petrol ie have leads for coil etc, it don't anymore, and my problem is trying to see what wires are doing what, looked through a manual and have found most of the wires via the colour coding, but on one a white lead was happy because the book says its from the ignition to the Coil, but just behind the engine is a multi block and when you follow the wire back its been cut on the ignition side, think we have chased it back and now found it.
Now for all you Auto electricians and brainy people, but I wanted to confirm all the wires I have do or go where they say they should, so I fitted a battery only to the earth, and with each individual lead put them on the positive, the bundle did what we were expecting, ie the Oil Temp gauge moved, the voltage stabiliser clicked etc, but the last wire I tried was the white lead that we believe goes to the ignition. (we are sure it does, have followed it through).
It sparked, so tried again it sparked, then turned the igniton on fine, had the ignition, oil and water light, but after that every time we tried a wire that we had already tried and was happy with it now activates the oil light and the voltage stabiliser.
Before someone suggests using an am meter haven't got one and no idea how to use it? someone has said sounds like a bad earth.
I've still got to wire up the EFI, and there is no rush car needs inner, outer wings, bonnet, front doors scuttle, brakes and clutch bleeding, oh and change the high pressure fuel pump and pipes, wanted to take the car to billing Land rover show this year??????
All that Kim's fault!
