alistairolsen
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| posted on 5/7/10 at 08:32 PM |
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Fitting intermittent wipe is a lot of work.....
At the weekend I had a mate over and while he was here I asked him to take a look at my loom and see what was required to make the intermittent wipe
work.....
On looking under the dash ad around the car we promptly condemned the loom and ripped it out, a mess of wires, scotchlocks and badly taped joins,
years of folk fishing around for a random live and then gradually replacing fuses with larger ones cos the heater motor is on the wiper feed etc
etc!
What ensued was a day and a half of rewiring, replacing any wires with damaged or brittle insulation, rerouting relays which had been added external
to the fusebox, separating feeds and putting them through separate appropriately sized fuses and removing the original pinto loom which was wrapped in
along with the car loom. Whilst doing this it became clear the loom was from a sierra automatic with injection and as my Jago was registered in 1984 I
assume this means its been reloomed at some point.
The problem with the wipers turned out to be missing wires for the intermit and park which will be replaced as soon as I get a plug:
An out of focus pic of some nice soldered joints with heatshrink on the stereo power plug:
So once we had sorted out the whole loom so everything went through the fusebox, all the irrelevant crap was removed and everything I needed was added
it was back into the car
I need to source some bulkhead grommets and then I can slowly get it taped up, all back into place and neatly clipped out of the way.
Should save any gremlins and ensuing fires hopefully
[Edited on 5/7/10 by alistairolsen]
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minitici
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| posted on 5/7/10 at 09:09 PM |
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I don't think Tunnock's Caramel Wafer wrappers make good fuse replacements.
The metalised paper is a bit waxy 
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Madinventions
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| posted on 5/7/10 at 10:05 PM |
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Ah - but they are extraordinarily tasty... 
Ed.
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