My guts are falling out

[Mrs BlueCerbera]

Good morning fellow S lovers
My electrics have decided to try to escape and are currently sitting in the passenger footwell. We have tried to pop them back in but they keep popping out again



Does anyone know how they are supposed to go back in? I'm assuming there should be some kind of order and/or fixing. Any tips would be much appreciated!

Coincidentally (I think) my heaters have also stopped working. Other than that, car is running beautifully at the moment!

[phillpot]

Mrs BlueCerbera said:

I'm assuming there should be some kind of order and/or fixing.

Order?...

Fixing?...



Basically it all just shoves in there as best you can and then the bit of stiffish carpet wedges up into place!



On mine I have fixed a piece of black plastic along the edge of the carpet flap and this tucks up holding things a bit more secure, with a single self tapping screw to ensure it doesn't drop down even if I hit a pot hole , speed bump or whatever

Mrs BlueCerbera said:

Coincidentally (I think) my heaters have also stopped working

No heat or fan not blowing?

Edited by phillpot on Monday 7th March 12:23

[Mrs BlueCerbera]

Thank you. Strange how it has stayed in place for the best part of the 10 years I've had the car but now decides to escape. I guess as we get older it happens to us all!

I'll have a go at shoving it back in again

[Oldred_V8S]

If you ever watched James Herriot as a kid, you will be familiar with the procedure required.

[Mrs BlueCerbera]

Fan not blowing

[Mrs BlueCerbera]

Oldred_V8S said:

If you ever watched James Herriot as a kid, you will be familiar with the procedure required.

Ha! Right, I'm with you ....

[Top Gear TVR]

i made up a piece of wire with an eyelet at each end. i attached one to the body of the car behind the fuse box / relays, pushed the ECU between the body of the car and the fuse box, then attached the other eyelet end of the cable to the fuse box mount. it basically hides up behind there and comes out if you remove the bit of wire. its not science but it works.

i have a video but its 32Mb!

Edited by Top Gear TVR on Monday 7th March 13:09

[greymrj]

I think it is called a prolapse?

Mine used to have a bit of stiff card covered in carpet that TVR somehow wedged in there, but that kept falling down under the weight of wires! I found a couple of strong points (one was the wiper motor mounting) and started holding things back with cable ties. Later I discovered many of the wires were redundant or better run some other way so mine is now much less of a rats nest and well (reasonably!) secured by those lovely cable ties. The guy who invented them is my hero!!

[v8s4me]

See the 30th October 2010 post onwards...

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

and do a proper job on it

[magpies]

there is enough 'slack' in the wiring loom to reposition the fuse/relay box through the top of the footwell and locate it on the engine side. Then fit a cheap plastic sandwich box to seal it.

I'll post some photo's when I get a chance to go into the garage and take them

[Bobhon]

Blower not working.

Amongst that mass of cables is a connector on a fly lead that goes to the blower motor in the front of the heater box. See if it has been disturbed when the prolapse happened. Might have pulled a wire out.

Too much of a coincidence if the blower stopped at the same time as the guts fell out.

On my V8S the guts were always falling out. I found an angled plate bolted up to the top of the footwell. A bit of sticky back velcro on the plate and on the ecu held that weight up. Then the stuff it all up and ram the carpet back in place fixed it.

Bob

[v8s4me]

Bobhon said:

....On my V8S the guts were always falling out. I found an angled plate bolted up to the top of the footwell. A bit of sticky back velcro on the plate and on the ecu held that weight up......

That's TVR R&D for you. By the time TVR got to the V8S, the "designers" had found a solution to the problem

[greymrj]

v8s4me said:

That's TVR R&D for you. By the time TVR got to the V8S, the "designers" had found a solution to the problem

Hmmmm, maybe not! Have you seen where they put the rats nest on a Chimaera!!!!!

[Bobhon]

v8s4me said:

That's TVR R&D for you. By the time TVR got to the V8S, the "designers" had found a solution to the problem

I could accept that.... if there was any way that the factory had tried to fix the ECU to the angled plate.

From memory the angled plate was held in by 2 bolts up though the top of the footwell, just behind the wheelarch if that makes sense? I don't know / can't remember if those bolts held anything else like the wiper motor. Anyway should be an easy job to make a bent plate and bolt it in. You could then velcro and cable tie all of the guts back up.

Bob