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No spark on 4age
Andrew Beattie - 1/9/07 at 01:36 PM

Hi, I've just finished the conversion from xflow to 4age in my Westy.
When trying to start it I get fuel but no spark.
I'm using the toyota wiring loom and have done the tests described in Haynes, the ignition coil and the distributor have the correct resistances.
I had a few bad earths when I first tried starting it, might this have damaged the ignitor or ecu? (all fuses are ok)

I wondered if anyone had any ideas of what to do next?

Thanks
Andrew


Andrew Beattie - 1/9/07 at 02:23 PM

Another thing I've noticed is that the charge light is very dim. Don't know if that helps at all?


russbost - 1/9/07 at 03:25 PM

When you say you are using the Toyota loom, how much of it have you got? - I use it complete with the engine bay fuse box & relays, which means you keep all the standard ecu wiring etc. & all you need to do is feed it with a permanent live, an earth, ign live, fuel pump wiring & starter trip & it will run. If you have the loom split behind the fusebox it's a bit more complicated.
The charge light dim may indicate a poor permanent feed to the alternator (which IIRC feeds most of the rest of the engine bay loom) or a poor engine earth.
The wiring diagrams are available online if you want them, tho' they are not very good. Unfortunately the Haynes manual & all the wiring digs I've found are all for the American model & hence are complicated by extra wires for A/C, cruise control, additional emissions etc etc
I have found that these old Toyota looms frequently have brittle wires/connectors so worth checking the multiplugs carefully to make sure that wires are actually intact & not just sitting in place but not connected.


Andrew Beattie - 1/9/07 at 03:48 PM

Thanks
I've got the wiring almost identical to Rob Lanes' diagram. Which is pretty much what I was left with after stripping out unused bits.
I'll go and have another check of earths, permanent feed to the alternator and bad connector blocks.


Andrew Beattie - 2/9/07 at 10:24 AM

Got it started! The problem was the one bit of wiring I made up myself, a relay was dropping the voltage from 12 to 2v for some reason.

Andrew