Scorpio 24v estate. It works!

[Seth]

Oh. Can you be confident that the wiring work is functioning as it should yet?

[Ozzy Mandeus]

Well, apart from the huge air leak everything seems to be working. All 6 cylinders fire, the idle control valve bravely tries to keep it running, unplugging the TPS or the MAF makes it stop dead. I can't test the gearbox until I can drive it though so keep fingers crossed for tomorrow.

On the plus side, I'm getting faster at stripping the inlets. Only took 20 minutes this time!

[Ozzy Mandeus]

Couldn't get injector seals, or the right size O rings so I cleaned the old ones and put them back. Everything back together, tried the starter, engine starts easily and settles to a smooth idle (smoother than it was before - no more up - down - try to stall -recover nonsense. So I cleared a path to back it out.

Around 5.30 I finally got a drive, ABS/TC light went out as soon as the car moved forwards, the gearbox behaves itself impeccably. I've left the battery connected, so tomorrow is when I find out if it still drains overnight. Still, looks like june 1st on the cards for taxing and the sierra will be retiring the same day.

[Amazo]

Well done!

[Ozzy Mandeus]

Battery still had life in it today (unlike the batteries in my camera...) so we put some petrol in and went for a drive around. Lovely.

[tone_depear]

Hurrah!

[Seth]

Three cheers!

[Leonard Hatred]

Great effort! I bet it's lovely to drive.

[Jonny69]

Lol. I mean hooray, congratulations etc.

[Ozzy Mandeus]

Taxed and in use



17.5mpg so far! All short trips with big hills though.

I've also been keeping an eye on it for more electrical gremlins with this



Which is a very versatile and useful android app when combined with a £10 ebay car adapter. There isn't enough memory on the amstrad to store lots of log data...