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by david_toft
Wed Jun 29, 2022 10:47 am
Forum: The Garage - Technical Forum
Topic: ABS problem
Replies: 9
Views: 3681

Re: ABS problem

What is the problem with soldering the wires together please?
by david_toft
Wed Jun 15, 2022 11:24 am
Forum: The Garage - Technical Forum
Topic: Timing Belt and water pump replacement
Replies: 22
Views: 10703

Re: Timing Belt and water pump replacement

Are these photos of the Ford book any use? The is no mention of a washer on here.
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by david_toft
Sun Mar 27, 2022 12:41 pm
Forum: The Garage - Technical Forum
Topic: Air Bag Blue Box :- Thermal Fuse
Replies: 30
Views: 16057

Re: Air Bag Blue Box :- Thermal Fuse

What happens if I don't plug the connections into the blue box?
by david_toft
Fri Mar 18, 2022 7:58 pm
Forum: The Garage - Technical Forum
Topic: Air Bag Blue Box :- Thermal Fuse
Replies: 30
Views: 16057

Re: Air Bag Blue Box :- Thermal Fuse

I have got a code 51 intermittent short to earth. I have checked the relevant contacts on the 2 plugs of the air bag diagnostic monitor (blue box) and they are all open circuit as they should be. The book then tells me to go to OASIS to get descriptions of wiring concern locations. It appears that O...
by david_toft
Sat Feb 26, 2022 5:29 pm
Forum: The Garage - Technical Forum
Topic: Airbag code 51
Replies: 2
Views: 2392

Re: Airbag code 51

Thanks for the reply. I had seen that list of fault codes. It says it is an intermittent short to earth which I was hoping had gone away, obviously it hasn't. I am now hoping that I can put a resistor in somewhere (not a fuse as in my previous post) that would de-activate the airbags and all the ass...
by david_toft
Fri Feb 25, 2022 4:01 pm
Forum: The Garage - Technical Forum
Topic: Airbag code 51
Replies: 2
Views: 2392

Airbag code 51

Help please. I had an airbag code 51. I changed the thermal fuse. I was lucky, I managed to get the lid off the blue box and get the circuit board out without having to remove the box itself which looked impossible. About 5 miles down the road the code 51 came back. I am sure I read somewhere on the...
by david_toft
Wed Jun 23, 2021 6:16 pm
Forum: The Garage - Technical Forum
Topic: Rebuilding the rear
Replies: 2
Views: 4314

Re: Rebuilding the rear

Is this any use?

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by david_toft
Sat May 29, 2021 8:53 am
Forum: The Garage - Technical Forum
Topic: Trailing Arm Bushes
Replies: 20
Views: 23331

Re: Trailing Arm Bushes

I measured those long bolts on my car and they are
M12 x 1.25 x 230 long, so metric fine.
My problem is getting them out of the hub where they have rusted in, any suggestions please.
by david_toft
Sun May 23, 2021 3:09 pm
Forum: The Garage - Technical Forum
Topic: One job I hate doing
Replies: 4
Views: 7011

Re: One job I hate doing

My uncle, a car enthusiast dentist, in the days before they started wearing those thin rubber gloves, used to say "Never go to the dentist on a Monday, other people's saliva is excellent for getting grease from under fingernails."
by david_toft
Thu Nov 26, 2020 1:15 pm
Forum: The Garage - Technical Forum
Topic: Starting issue - maybe!
Replies: 25
Views: 36904

Re: Starting issue - maybe!

Misfiring can also destroy the catalyst. The unburnt fuel goes down the exhaust pipe and the cat does its stuff. In burning it off it gets extremely hot and eventually melts into blobs which can then block the rest of the exhaust system, in my experience with a Rover 214. In my mates experience it s...