*MAXXD* Clare's Rieger F40 Escort Cabriolet "BigCab"

[Alanman]

We're getting there. Its still not fixed to a usable point yet. Long story short, some bad repairs of dodgy old Ford wiring a long time ago caused the Clifford immobiliser to fail. For the last 4 years, while the alarm has been in, its had way too much current passing through it and Saturday morning it decided it was just too much.

Its now back to working (almost) after removing some damaged wire that werent needed, repairing some that were needed. Although the wiring seems all good and back as it should be, we're still getting problems with the fuel pump blowing fuses, 30 amp fuses too.

This could be 1 of 2 reasons.

Option 1: Before the Cab came back on the road, I swapped out the fuel tank and its possible I've trapped the fuel pump wires causing a short. Easy fix, reroute another feed to the pump. Going to check this tonight, but I recon its option 2.

Option 2: The fuel pump itself is fucked and causing a short. Also easy fix......swap the pump. lol.

Although we've still got a problem, we are a shit load happier today than we were Monday. Monday we though we needed a whole new loom and a new alarm, that would have been £600+. Today it looks like the worsed is a new (second hand) fuel pump at about £20.

ps. I love this car. lol


Alanman