AndyP

Thanks for the clarification.

You're probably right about the clamp meter, but an ammeter in parallel with a shunt will measure the current that runs throiugh the shunt, that's my understanding anyway.

The downside of an ammeter, as mentioned above, is that it has to be in series, positive or negative side, probably doesn't matter as long as the polarity is right. But this means that all the current is pulled through the meter itself which does make it a weak link in the chain. There may be smarter ways of doing this with a modern, non-intrusive multi-meter as a temporary solution, or you can connect it in parallel with a shunt, to reduce the reliance on the ammeter itself. Do you really need this on a long-term basis or just for a bit of short-term fault finding ? Clouds of smoke on start/slower starting, is usually a good indication of when a glowplug is failing, and even with an ammeter in place you still have to work out which of the plugs has gone.

Do you have the later model PTU or not ? The early ones do tend to fail when warm, but a total failure on one, or all outputs is possible.

Thought my car was the only one with a rear Tokyo Auto strut brace (and a front of course). :)

So far looks like a spammer to me. The account will be removed at the next infraction.

Make sure the blue ECU plug is seated properly, and that there are no badly bent, potentially broken wires on the back of it.

Just time mainly, it hasn't been driven since 2010 and since I moved in 2012 it's been parked outside and unpampered. I didn't want to see it sit and rust.

Same here, there were several photos of pairs, but don't remember a threesome.

Yeah sorry, had to happen though. Now I'll need to use yours for testing ECU's - I have a crate full of them !

... for me anyway. I think it'll stay in the club though.

Whatever you choose to see in that photo is probably not the shape you think it is. I presume that this is a night picture using a long exposure and infared, so a small moving object will looked blurred and larger. We have cameras like this in the kids rooms to ensure that they are asleep etc., and tiny flying things, maybe even dust particles and definitely moths etc show up all the time, when they are not visible in the room itself.

SE used UV erasable chips, that is not one of those, plus they usually had a silver label with black writing. It may be an SE one that someone has copied.

Yes, the ECU has been socketed and it has a non-standard chip. It doesn't look like the sort that SE Nissan used to use, but of course all of their chips may not be the same.

I tried using it for the first time last night and it was absolutely useless. Couldn't see anything new that had been posted.

There are more sophisticated, adjustable versions. Mine is built into the strut brace.

Well here is the diagram, not exactly the detail I thought it might be, but it's a start.

There is a drawing out there for one of these (somewhere). I probably have it on my home machine somewhere, but a Google search may find it.

Seriously ? Surely these could only legitimately be supplied by Nissan.

Before you rip it apart I'd make double, double certain it is the head gasket. Check for oil in the water (sounds like you don't have), exhaust gases in the water (you may have) and water in the oil. Then do a compression test, if all of those are good then the head gasket is probably ok. There are quite a few places for water to leak, and water bubbling back into the overflow tank is quite normal - it's what it's there for!

Actually, I meant the statistic, not the event. But, it's in The Daily Mail, so it must be true, right ? :)

Very clever, wonder whether it's actually true ?

It wasn't just "the scripts" that were funny. [video=youtube_share;G_X_7TrcHGM]

Contact Mike Feeney, MJP, in the Traders section, I'm sure he'll have some in stock.

Happy Birthday Mike.