Hedley wrote:Did you manage to get a brand new fan? I'm definitely in the market for one of those. Have you replaced the extractor fan on the other side too? I think that's just as important. It'll be interesting if yours improves with just one fan replaced. If so it'll probably point to the two fans being the route cause and give me hope that I'm on the right lines replacing mine. The earth wire fault has been red herring for my car and I now think that hearing the similarity with your fault it's a cooling issue after all.
I've got a second hand fan, not new. But i'm told its a good one. The one I have sounds like its eating itself alive when its running, there is no way I could happily let it run and walk away from the car. still blows good and strong though.
Cant fault my extractor fan, so that can stay put.
The replacement switch should arrive in the post any day this week ready to fit at the weekend. Also got new coil (as its cheap), plugs (as they are service items anyway) and a TDC sensor coming, along with a pair or rear tyres because Steve certainly looks to have enjoyed himself in this car comparing the tyre wear front to rear.. I'll do the same im sure..
Will also give all the wiring a good once over, visual inspection everywhere, check all chassis grounding points are good and get inside and clean the contacts in all the connectors. Hopefully my speedo will spring to life once ive done this. I understand there is a particularly vulnerable connector for speedo problems, can anyone remind me which one is that please?
Pick up my workshop manuals on Thursday morning so hopefully by the weekend ill have a much better understanding of this beast!
I dont believe that the fans alone not working is the root cause, perhaps the fans not working for a while meaning that the engine bay has seen excessive temperatures for a while which has damaged some sensor or wiring somewhere. I'm thinking that the 610 ECU is somewhat unique that its will merrily cut out when its not happy with something where any other ECU would simply pop a MIL light on and carry on as best it can. Its possible in my eye that the 'cutting out' problem is so hard for us all to solve because the genuine root cause is different on each car. We have read about wiring damage, duff sensors, poor grounding all being billed as the cause. I suspect that its been different for everyone. For me, its definitely heat related, so will certainly be made worse by the lack of cooling so this is definitely the first thing on the list to attend to.
I'll be very disapointed if I cant get to the bottom of this. These cars would certainly not have been like this in 1994.. And my car would certainly not have got to 124000miles if it had always been like this. Nobody would have had the patience!
