Apologies for the delay in updates; Its the end of financial year in "real work" and that means I'm little bit busy!
Work has been progressing on R1 though; When I left you last, I'd pulled the rear lights out. Well, the NS light was possibly beyond saving, so I dug out my spare (again, not a pristine £600 savings job, but slightly more usable than the current one).
Both lights were then treated to a flat down of the outer lenses, which revealed a lot of surface pitting. So, I decided to give them a coat of 2k Lacquer...
Not too bad! Here they are mocked up on the car (awaiting lense seals before final refit)
The more observant amongst you will also notice that the top half of the boot area that had been repaired got de-rusted, primed and painted black too...
I'm deep into the wiring at moment, which is never fun. As you know the relay box was living in the footwell, as I started to try and trace and undo the work done by the youtube twins.
First little victory was getting the popups working. Someone had replaced the popup relay with this:
Which is
NOT a pop up relay (its the blue relay from the end of the fuse box). Replacing it with the one from Henry, did not however, fix the issue. I dug deeper, and found that the other missing relay (front row, middle, to the left of the red relay holder), should actually be a 5 pin change over relay (that doesn't use one pin - nice!). Replacing this resulting in this:
Pop up action (right click and open in new tab)
next on the list were the continuously running headlamp washer pump, and the lack of Aux driving lamps on flash/full beam.
perusing the wiring diagrams, both circuits are controlled by the CEM. So, lets go have a look.
Sadly, I was
not the first person here....
snipped and then scotch-locked wiring added (and thus, removed by me!)
As crazy as the dutch are, I don't think they'd have run the loom through that wiring like that...
The plugs to the CEM were, lets say "interesting"
Thankfully, the green rusty ones are an extension circuit that can be removed and thrown in the blasting cabinet....
however, the electrical gods were still not pleased with my efforts, and the problems persisted, despite joining the wire and cleaning the terminals.
The CEM has a self diagnosis function - cool! First time I ran, it started to test various circuits, then errored at one step. By the time I'd found the reference material (which is
here), I'd forgotten which step it was at - to be fair, I was using a french version at first and was doing my best to try and remember 35 year old french lesson stuff! Anyway, no problem, we can just run it again. It errored at the very first step, which is, essentially, dead CEM.
Now, it's very important in projects, not to let things get you down. Its one of the reason I work in my chaotic way - there is, a sort of order to the chaos.
Never do too much at once (To easy to become depressed at the scale of work required)
Enjoy the little victories (that's what keeps you going)
So, when I hit a big problem, I need a little victory, something to soothe and calm the nerves...
So I cleaned the engine bay!
Airbox is out because it gives better access to the gearbox/subframe, plus its easier to clean it....