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Crap gauge?

I often scratch my head when I look at the wiring in my car. Then I remember that I was the idiot who did it like that.

I'm making a better one from scratch with more adjustability. If you have any scratch spare could I have some? I make a lot of things from scratch and I'm running short. Keep the updates coming always interesting to read about this stuff. You need to get a better cat. Endless supply of scratch if y...

My next battle is my crank sensor mount. I've gone from a VR sensor to a hall-effect one. I bodged it into the mount I had previously made, but it was offset towards the rad by about 6mm and didn't really line up well. The engine runs, but I have a lot of dropouts to 0 rpm so I'm making a better one...

I've had it idling now. I had to fiddle a bit with the req fuel figure to get it ball park right. I had to stop it when the fan didn't kick in at the right time and it was heading towards overheating. I suspect I have air in the cooling system to bleed out as well. If you need to alter the req_fuel...

I've had it idling now. I had to fiddle a bit with the req fuel figure to get it ball park right. I had to stop it when the fan didn't kick in at the right time and it was heading towards overheating. I suspect I have air in the cooling system to bleed out as well.

It's alive! It starts and runs for about 10 seconds before dying, but fundamentally it works

Ian Anderson wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 11, 2021 6:45 am

Check oil pick up bolts are tight and gasket intact or it will suck air.

Ian

Just what I was about to post as it happened to me. However, I didn't lose all pressure immediately, that would probably need the oil pick up to fall off into the sump.

Totally fine with a good thread hijack
I've previously used a relay coil to drive the tach. I'd highly recommend removing the switching bits of the relay as I didn't and the noise from it was quite audible over my engine!

No, entirely my fault disregarding warnings and poking things I shouldn't

And now I've managed to cook half of one of my two coilpacks. Waiting for a pair of new packs with inbuilt ignitors to arrive now. The only remaining parts of the original control system will be the coolant and air temp sensors

It turns out the ESP8266 for wifi was a bad idea as it caused spurious signals on the hall sensor line. Slowly working up towards getting the engine to fire.

richardpope50 wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 26, 2021 5:33 pm

Update. I posted the same request on the TR Regster Forum and now have a very detailed set of routes for a trip all over the Yorkshire Dales.

Care to share?

Posting at 3:45am might not be the best idea in the world