Amazo wrote:Ozzy Mandeus wrote:the same windscreen as a mk3 granada.
Should do; it's the same as the early bustle-back ones.
huh?
Today! There is no obvious damage on the bits of loom I can see, all the multiplugs are clean as a whistle. After lowering the exhausts and removing the heat shielding you can almost* see the gearbox plug.
It's the blue thing hiding behind the exhaust in the bottom left of the pic. That's after I spent 20 minutes unplugging it!
While I was under there, I changed the VSS because there was one in an envelope on the back seat.
Not quite as bad as the front plug, but still awkward. Made absolutley no difference to the fault too. Oh, and ABS and Traction control have added themselves to the dash lights (maybe because I tested the gearbox on the ramp...) and you can hear random clicking from the fusebox and several engine solenoids with the ignition off and the key out. The fan runs randomly with everything off too. This *MAY* be where the battery power goes at night. It's all pointing to loom death but I need to run continuity checks between ECU and Gearbox plugs before going down that road. It isn't an easy loom to change, and requires the engine and box removed from the car, and the inlet manifold off the engine as well.
I need an assistant for that bit (can't be inside AND underneath at once you see) so it's waiting for tomorrow. This is the current state of play, including my state of the art diagnostic system. There were several gearbox/sensor/voltage faults recorded..... Passenger seat is out to save my back from trouble while lying in the footwell testing the wires.
