bl**dy hell

 

thought to myself , nice day today ill fit that new fuel gauge ...

took dash apart . dont many times before ...removed fuel gauge

re fitted new one ..its only 3 screws .....put it back together checked it looked ok

 

fitted in the car and now ................rev counter shows 800 revs without engine running , try to start her up big .clunk sound and nothing except my alarm going off ............what the F**k have i done ????

 

any ideas guys . the cars abondoned halfway up my drive took the gauge pod back off and cant see anything wrong at all ...........im stumped :(

For those of you who may encounter a similar problem ............took the dash apart again and double checked my install of the fuel gauge .no probs there ..or should there be as i am in inst engineer by trade !! ..checked the harness to the dash pod

all ok no loose no misalignments .....checked the Indiglo dial feeds all seemed ok ....ok we are now at Devcon 2 ..my head is nipping ..what have i done .....noticed that the speedo had been sitting on its end stop must have been when i installed first time round and because it is a free fall mechanism it just ran to top scale 180 MPH this must have confused the buggery out of the ECU ...dissconected the battery +ve post and let it sit for 30 minutes ...............re connected after re zeroing the speedo and bobs you uncle freds your aunt .....VROOOOOM VROOOOOOOM with a bit of underdrive pulley squeel thrown in for good measure ................happy chap now

 

hope this helps somebody in the future

 

Steve

Nice work mate, a hate it when jobs like that seem to go really bad!

Yeah, that must have been a fairly horrible moment. Glad you got it sorted.

it was absolutley heart breaking ..luckily i have kirbz for morale support

 

strange thing is the rev counter still jumps to 800rpm when i turn the key before starting it up .....runs fine though so i think i will leave well alone for a couple of days until my stomache can cope with the ulcers this car gives me :)