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Ace 'Brooklands' Forum / Brooklands Register
« on: December 09, 2013, 23:14:41 »
Ace wise the H&H auction was a disappointment. Wonder what price the bidding stop?
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Ace 'Brooklands' Forum / Brooklands Register
« on: October 27, 2013, 20:21:50 »
Don't wish to appear stupid but what info do you want?
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Ace 'Brooklands' Forum / Location of ECU diagnostic plug
« on: July 02, 2013, 21:04:17 »
Thanks for the info Wally, but I'm confused by the words "self diagnostic facility will be very basic". Are you referring to the Blue Point diagnostic kit advertised on ebay will give only basic info?
SB7019 - a pic of OBD1 plug would be very helpful. Don't fancy the alternative ie removing the heater box to gain access to ecu [V]
SB7019 - a pic of OBD1 plug would be very helpful. Don't fancy the alternative ie removing the heater box to gain access to ecu [V]
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Ace 'Brooklands' Forum / Location of ECU diagnostic plug
« on: July 01, 2013, 00:16:45 »
Thanks Nev
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Ace 'Brooklands' Forum / Location of ECU diagnostic plug
« on: June 30, 2013, 10:03:30 »
Thanks for info Nev. Sorry, I should have made it clearer – I’m looking for location of engine ecu service plug. Having said that my ABS doesn’t work properly, so interested you sourced a diagnostic box of tricks in States, although puzzled it came from USA. I thought system was Ford UK designed and fitted on Granada? Can you remember where you got the unit and was the it effective in revealing cause of malfunction(s)?
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Ace 'Brooklands' Forum / Sure is quiet here....do I need to start a fight?
« on: May 15, 2013, 00:46:03 »
As you say - auctions are another rip-off. Time was when the hammer went down the price bid was the price paid. Now 10% - 15% -20% is added to the hammer price + VAT.
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Ace 'Brooklands' Forum / Sure is quiet here....do I need to start a fight?
« on: May 15, 2013, 00:36:30 »
I take your point Wally about having something in place that encourage exhibitors turn up AND stay ‘till end of the day. However, without cars the organisers don't have a show and think the current policy of charging exhibitors an entry fee is a damned cheek and will eventually kill the whole concept. I for one used to enjoy meeting and chatting with people, but since most local shows now charge I no longer bother to apply.
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Ace 'Brooklands' Forum / ACe Brooklands Rear Lower Wishbone
« on: December 20, 2012, 23:08:07 »
Yep – its an exotic car!!!!! [8D] Bonnet hinge might be broken and hood not work, but you've got a rare earth investment. [
] Hubs didn’t strike me as being particularly light carrying them back to car.
] Hubs didn’t strike me as being particularly light carrying them back to car.
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Ace 'Brooklands' Forum / ACe Brooklands Rear Lower Wishbone
« on: December 19, 2012, 23:09:33 »
A surprising feature. According to my machine shop rear hubs are not aluminium but magnesium. So welding is a no no unless you want a pile of ash!! A belated attempt to save weight perhaps? HaHa
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Ace 'Brooklands' Forum / ACe Brooklands Rear Lower Wishbone
« on: December 18, 2012, 07:14:40 »
I admire your tenacity Patrick – you go from problem to problem but still hang in there!
When we last spoke you weren’t aware the hood ECU had LED lights. If they’re not illuminated with ignition on you have a basic lack of supply to hood circuitry. With ignition and handbrake applied do the windows drop when you operate the dash switch? If not, it could be something as simple as handbrake micro switch malfunction.
When we last spoke you weren’t aware the hood ECU had LED lights. If they’re not illuminated with ignition on you have a basic lack of supply to hood circuitry. With ignition and handbrake applied do the windows drop when you operate the dash switch? If not, it could be something as simple as handbrake micro switch malfunction.
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Ace 'Brooklands' Forum / ACe Brooklands Rear Lower Wishbone
« on: December 15, 2012, 22:04:42 »
Hi Pat,
I was puzzled myself the rear wishbone bearings when I had to remove hubs – they certainly didn’t appear to be tapered roller as per Jag I.R.S. ( insufficient diameter within housings and nothing was inclined to fall out when hub assemblies were removed). I suspect they’re caged needle roller, but overhaul of the outer bearings wasn’t my reason for removing hubs, so wasn’t tempted to delve too deep into type of bearings used. I was more concerned how to get the hubs back on the car – they were a tight fit and had to make up a spreader to ease the wishbone lugs apart.
Couple of points – you’ll need a hub puller to get the hubs off drive shafts and the nearside drive shaft nut is left hand thread.
Hope that helps a little.
Merry Christmas,
Max
I was puzzled myself the rear wishbone bearings when I had to remove hubs – they certainly didn’t appear to be tapered roller as per Jag I.R.S. ( insufficient diameter within housings and nothing was inclined to fall out when hub assemblies were removed). I suspect they’re caged needle roller, but overhaul of the outer bearings wasn’t my reason for removing hubs, so wasn’t tempted to delve too deep into type of bearings used. I was more concerned how to get the hubs back on the car – they were a tight fit and had to make up a spreader to ease the wishbone lugs apart.
Couple of points – you’ll need a hub puller to get the hubs off drive shafts and the nearside drive shaft nut is left hand thread.
Hope that helps a little.
Merry Christmas,
Max
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Ace 'Brooklands' Forum / AC Ace Brooklands 1995 - electric hood problem
« on: August 05, 2012, 23:00:55 »
A very kind offer Keith, but haven’t a clue the oil spec other than it has quote – “ highly viscosity index/anti-wear/thermal stability/resistance to oxidation/anti-corrosive/anti-foaming/neutrality to elastomers” - and is also used by Citroen! Theoretically oil in any quantity shouldn’t be necessary unless changing a ram or something – then life would start to get expensive! However, assuming similar viscosity ( and maybe flushing out original oil as precaution) would using a slightly different oil matter much? (It’s not like the old days of vegetable oils when mixing veg with mineral was recipe for disaster.)
Kindest regards
Max
Kindest regards
Max
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Ace 'Brooklands' Forum / AC Ace Brooklands 1995 - electric hood problem
« on: August 05, 2012, 13:28:56 »
More than likely it’s trolley jack oil (which I have) but I wasn’t about to chance it!
Went through the same head scratching exercise myself refitting serpentine belt following head(s) change. Several months had passed and hadn’t a clue how it went.
Yep – it’s the alloy box with two bundles of wires attached. Point of interest – of the two fuses in the boot the 30 amp fuse protects pump circuit, but the 5 amp fuse has NO influence on hood operation. My hood is working again (touching the woodiest wood I can find [
]), so out of curiosity I removed the 5 amp fuse and tried raising the hood. Low and behold it worked as per normal !! So your guess is as good as mine what it’s protecting.
If you’ve got no LED lights then the problem has be a loss of 12v supply (+ 30 on wiring diagram), the supply to which ultimately originates at ignition switch. Stupidly, the diagram doesn’t appear to show the dash switch. Unless I’m missing something it can’t be +15 as shown on diagram. +15 sends 12v supply to (a) ecu and (b) coil side of pump relay (negative return to complete circuit and energise relay and start pump is via ecu). But ecu requires instruction from dash switch to raise or lower hood, so by my reckoning there must be two wires from switch not shown on diagram.
Went through the same head scratching exercise myself refitting serpentine belt following head(s) change. Several months had passed and hadn’t a clue how it went.
Yep – it’s the alloy box with two bundles of wires attached. Point of interest – of the two fuses in the boot the 30 amp fuse protects pump circuit, but the 5 amp fuse has NO influence on hood operation. My hood is working again (touching the woodiest wood I can find [
]), so out of curiosity I removed the 5 amp fuse and tried raising the hood. Low and behold it worked as per normal !! So your guess is as good as mine what it’s protecting.If you’ve got no LED lights then the problem has be a loss of 12v supply (+ 30 on wiring diagram), the supply to which ultimately originates at ignition switch. Stupidly, the diagram doesn’t appear to show the dash switch. Unless I’m missing something it can’t be +15 as shown on diagram. +15 sends 12v supply to (a) ecu and (b) coil side of pump relay (negative return to complete circuit and energise relay and start pump is via ecu). But ecu requires instruction from dash switch to raise or lower hood, so by my reckoning there must be two wires from switch not shown on diagram.
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Ace 'Brooklands' Forum / AC Ace Brooklands 1995 - electric hood problem
« on: August 04, 2012, 11:20:19 »
Patrick. With the ignition on do any of the LED's on the ecu light up? On mine, with ignition on (but before operating dash switch) two reds and three greens illuminate.
Oil's not cheap - £15.28 for 125 ml bottle.[
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Oil's not cheap - £15.28 for 125 ml bottle.[
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Ace 'Brooklands' Forum / AC Ace Brooklands 1995 - electric hood problem
« on: August 02, 2012, 19:26:27 »
Hi Patrick. Did you sort your non-functioning hood? (With or without assistance of the pretty useless wiring diagram I supplied.) [V]
Been have proplems with my own hood - it would part-lift then collapse back down. Topping up oil level (Peugeot Pt No 9734.NO) solved that, but operation remains unreliable - works perfectly sometimes, but on others either refuses to function or gets tied up in knots part way through cycle. [!]
Been have proplems with my own hood - it would part-lift then collapse back down. Topping up oil level (Peugeot Pt No 9734.NO) solved that, but operation remains unreliable - works perfectly sometimes, but on others either refuses to function or gets tied up in knots part way through cycle. [
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