Dash rewire job.
Discussion
Hi all
Well the new motor landed today and I made a start on the rewire.
As is always the way a few things cropped up that I was not expecting.
1 The new loom that was supplied with the car is the "body" loom and has no engine wiring ( turns out that this is a seperate loom )and although the fire damage is pretty small I still need both looms!
2 I knew that the heater box had been damaged, but did not expect the heater blower motor that is tucked away in the inner wing to be melted into a little lump down in the sill. So I need one of these now.
3 The dash's walnut trim is fubar so I will need to rework this. Has anybody covered one in the carbon fiber film and if so does it look any good?
4 I was hoping that I could get away without taking the screen out to retrim the panel with the demist vents in, but it ain't going to happen. So the screens got to come out!
But thats the bad points the good ones are~
1 The chassis is in pretty good nick for a 94 chimp. The out riggers are solid and just require a good steam clean then some wax oil.
2 It looks to have had a new exhaust not that long ago.
3 The tyres are good.
4 It's a non PAS so only 2.2 turns lock to lock.
5 It's a V8!!!
6 With a little bit of paint the body will look really smart.
I will try and add some pic's but can't sus out how to just at the mo.
Cheers Ade
First try at adding a photo.
Just a little bit of dash work to do.
This melted lump used to be the heater box!!!
This is the engine loom. I think the damage caused to this loom was from the other loom shorting out so hopefully the ecu may have survived. I've just got to find a engine loom now!
Had a bit of a set back today. I discovered that the supplied loom is for a later version chimp, so Racing green are trying to sort out the correct loom. They seemed very helpful on the phone so I will wait to see if they can get the correct loom.
Any one know what the heater blower motor was out of?
Well the new motor landed today and I made a start on the rewire.
As is always the way a few things cropped up that I was not expecting.
1 The new loom that was supplied with the car is the "body" loom and has no engine wiring ( turns out that this is a seperate loom )and although the fire damage is pretty small I still need both looms!
2 I knew that the heater box had been damaged, but did not expect the heater blower motor that is tucked away in the inner wing to be melted into a little lump down in the sill. So I need one of these now.
3 The dash's walnut trim is fubar so I will need to rework this. Has anybody covered one in the carbon fiber film and if so does it look any good?
4 I was hoping that I could get away without taking the screen out to retrim the panel with the demist vents in, but it ain't going to happen. So the screens got to come out!
But thats the bad points the good ones are~
1 The chassis is in pretty good nick for a 94 chimp. The out riggers are solid and just require a good steam clean then some wax oil.
2 It looks to have had a new exhaust not that long ago.
3 The tyres are good.
4 It's a non PAS so only 2.2 turns lock to lock.
5 It's a V8!!!
6 With a little bit of paint the body will look really smart.
I will try and add some pic's but can't sus out how to just at the mo.
Cheers Ade
First try at adding a photo.
Just a little bit of dash work to do.
This melted lump used to be the heater box!!!
This is the engine loom. I think the damage caused to this loom was from the other loom shorting out so hopefully the ecu may have survived. I've just got to find a engine loom now!
Had a bit of a set back today. I discovered that the supplied loom is for a later version chimp, so Racing green are trying to sort out the correct loom. They seemed very helpful on the phone so I will wait to see if they can get the correct loom.
Any one know what the heater blower motor was out of?
Edited by AirconAde on Friday 18th January 19:49
Yea I have seen them but the chimp loom may be slightly different where the body loom meets the engine loom. I may have to go down this route if I cant source the correct one.
The Advantage to living in the middle of wales is that there are plenty of 4x4 breakers so rangies are plentyful.
cheers for the links though.
Ade
The Advantage to living in the middle of wales is that there are plenty of 4x4 breakers so rangies are plentyful.
cheers for the links though.
Ade
Hi uncle fester.
Could be interested in you loom. drop me a line when you stick it in on PH.
Hi Spend.
Yes I cheched the body the foot well is in good condition apart from being a little smokie.
Hi All
well had a bit of news on the wrong loom today, Looks like I'm stuck with the supplied loom as it's the best I'm going to get so I will be modding it to fit the vehicle the bulk of it is ok just a few tweeks and it should be good.
Righ I'm back off out to the shed for round two.
If anyone has a wiring diagram thats better than the one in the bible I would be happy to proof read it if you know what I mean.
Cheers Ade.
Could be interested in you loom. drop me a line when you stick it in on PH.
Hi Spend.
Yes I cheched the body the foot well is in good condition apart from being a little smokie.
Hi All
well had a bit of news on the wrong loom today, Looks like I'm stuck with the supplied loom as it's the best I'm going to get so I will be modding it to fit the vehicle the bulk of it is ok just a few tweeks and it should be good.
Righ I'm back off out to the shed for round two.
If anyone has a wiring diagram thats better than the one in the bible I would be happy to proof read it if you know what I mean.
Cheers Ade.
Uncle Fester said:
The cost of a new Lucas engine loom is slightly more than the cost of new Emerald loom.
Do Emerald offer a fully assembled loom for this application? Usually that's quite an expensive option and it would be much more sensible to buy a semi-assembled loom i.e. with the ECU connector and a bunch of trailing wires that need to be cut to length and have the right connectors fitted. It's not hard to do that bit yourself, the only remotely tricky part is finding the right connectors for the throttle pot, lambda sensors etc. I wouldn't expect either loom to make much of a dent in the cost of a new ECU.Seems like pre-made looms for alt ECU's are very expensive?, even the connectors with tails for you to make your own loom are quite dear, as well IMHO. Connectors, cable & make your own seems the best way TBH.
The std loom is pretty much just the LR hotwire one, you just need to change some of the links to the car wiring, and remove some of the auto & a/c bits.
The SHPub diagram is pretty generic, but fine for the early cars without all the electrikery control boxes stuff. The main area of confusions are around the different fusebox layouts.
I suspect wiring the fusebox is going to be your hardest problem.
Much of the secondary looms are connected at the top left of teh dash, and it looks like some of these may be damaged. I think you would have been a lot better paying a visit to DougValley or BellHill and stripping a complete loom / fusebox .. out of a car with similar wiring (they changed an awful lot over the years).
Dave
The std loom is pretty much just the LR hotwire one, you just need to change some of the links to the car wiring, and remove some of the auto & a/c bits.
The SHPub diagram is pretty generic, but fine for the early cars without all the electrikery control boxes stuff. The main area of confusions are around the different fusebox layouts.
I suspect wiring the fusebox is going to be your hardest problem.
Much of the secondary looms are connected at the top left of teh dash, and it looks like some of these may be damaged. I think you would have been a lot better paying a visit to DougValley or BellHill and stripping a complete loom / fusebox .. out of a car with similar wiring (they changed an awful lot over the years).
Dave
Well spent a couple of hours out in the shed and made a good deal of progress on the wiring, most of the loom matches up with only the locking that appears to be very differant. It looks like the alarm is the main control for the locking so this will be altered to match up to a multi channel Clifford system to give me remote boot release, remote lights.
This is not too big a problem as I spent many years as a hifi/alarm installer so I could kill two birds with one stone.
Spend. your right about the fuse box causing some fun along with the remote relay base (indicators, hazzards etc)I think it will be one of those time consuming jobs but it's surprising what you can do with a bit of time.
Just one question this time. The door opening knob has an illuminated push button in the middle of it, I assume that this operated the central locking or the boot release?
well back out to the shed!
This is not too big a problem as I spent many years as a hifi/alarm installer so I could kill two birds with one stone.
Spend. your right about the fuse box causing some fun along with the remote relay base (indicators, hazzards etc)I think it will be one of those time consuming jobs but it's surprising what you can do with a bit of time.
Just one question this time. The door opening knob has an illuminated push button in the middle of it, I assume that this operated the central locking or the boot release?
well back out to the shed!
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