Win some, loose some

Ok, well, it was all win, with the exception of the passenger side indicator now no longer works, but it is now too dark to diagnose any further.

Although it’s taken the best part of the day, I’ve finally cleared out all the junk that occupied the engine bay. I had plans of mounting the compressor as well today, but the light faded too quickly.

Had to remove the batteries to get all around the engine bay.

There were four connectors earthed on this one screw. These were for the fog lights and the driving lights. It true bodgy installer fashion, this was hijacked off the park light. And, the driving light circuit was hijacked off the +ve of the headlight globe. I suppose this is fine, it’s just messy.

These were all the connectors, just on one battery.

The big 6 gauge wires have been run to the back of the car, and are about to be terminated above.

 

One of the cables terminated and ‘heatshrunk’. This is the water proof fuse panel I’ve been waiting to fit. It was somewhat bigger than I expected and struggled to find somewhere to install it.

This is the factory ‘power distribution’ block. Above as pictured is the winch wired live all the time, and the second connector on the ACC+ is the dual battery isolator.

After having to drill out the stubborn screw, they are now both correctly setup on the ignition circuit.

Woo hoo, by earthing the lamp circuit, it’s now nice and bright – much better. And it now indicates the out/in perfectly. Can’t wait to test this properly tomorrow. I now have a box of cables and fuses which I’m sure will get reused, but it’s much less weight on my mind now knowing it’s pretty much back to factory.

Occasionally (once for Cassie, and twice for me) when starting the car it takes a few turns and has a large enough to be visible puff of black soot/smoke once it starts. Not really sure what it could be, maybe the glow plugs are not working?

I’ll explain my thinking to help with the diagnostic process. The presence of soot/smoke sounds to me like it IS getting diesel, and when it does start, all this isn’t properly burnt and appears as soot/smoke. It does run rough for about one/two seconds after this incident.

It never hesitates to start if you restart it, or if it’s warm – welcome any ideas.