meerkat8701

i think its because i try to do too much physically, dont sleep enough and dont eat enough, although i do share your theory that its little kids that spread disease. i have seen way too many of them unabashedly coughing straight in peoples faces "accidently on purpose" for it not to be true


so you guys think i should bypass everything and go straight from the power source to el fuel pumpo?
i can only hope that roger is there today maybe he can give me a hand checking.
right im off. hopefully i can come back with some good news today

meerkat8701

roger was there today and more than willing to help out thank goodness.
i really dont have the first clue when it comes to electronics and it is becoming more and more obvious how debilitating it is to my hobby.
the first thing that roger noticed was all the loose connection all over the engine bay that have resulted from the removal of the P/S, AC and the airpump. he checked alot of stuff and because i didnt really understand most of it i think it would be misleading to write up my discombobulated account of what he did so ill keep it simple. he noticed that someone (most likely the PO or the person that installed the immobiliser has done something with the wires to the fuel pump. he based this assumption upon the fact that the wires going to the fuel pump and the ones after the connection were different colors.

these are the cables going to the fuel pump..



and these are the cables after the connector..



he wanted me to find out which cable fed power to the fuel pump.
im wondering if there is some kind of write up about this ill have to have a look. roger said he would help me tomorrow. he said we would start by troubleshooting a bit and if that was too much headache he would just run a cable directly from the ignition to the pump with a switch and a fuse.

im just going to keep reading and searching and see if i can understand this system so that i can be of some kind of help tomorrow.

Pettersen

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Looks like the stock wiring to me.

meerkat8701

could well be man.. something is definately amiss though. since we installed the engine i have removed the spark plugs almost everytime to check if there was fuel on them. sometimes there is and sometimes not. its really wierd. the last time i started the car (maybe 3 months ago) it started fine everytime. now all of a sudden nothing works. im either cursed or just going through what alot of fc owners probably go through.
roger will solve it im sure. the best thing i can do is pay attention so that i can actually learn something =)

clokker

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That's completely normal, I ran into the same issue on my car(s).
The wire colors on the body harness side match the manual's schematic (L/G is pump, W/R is fuel gauge and W/G is LOW fuel in the idiot cluster) but the patch harness from there to the tank bulkhead are just random.
Just follow the blue/green guy and you're there.

meerkat8701

Shame on me for blaming the poor PO. Thanks clokker! Blue is power right?

clokker

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Ja.

meerkat8701

You are now one of us. Your go code is...'köttbullar med gräddstuvade makaroner'

clokker

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I've been attending indoktrinering at Ikea after closing...do not worry, we will not let you down.
I'll rappel down to the food court and check out the meatballs after our live fire exercise.

meerkat8701

The glorious day will come when the infidel realises the true strength pf our neutrality!!

Bugger. Its 6am and i have imbibed alot of fermented herring juice. This may affect the outcome of tomorrows (todays?) Attempts to sort out the seven. Fortunately i have monday tuesday and wednesday off/unemployed.

clokker

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I'm curious...
How does employment work in Sweden?
Your schedule seems rather random and erratic...is this institutional or a personal choice?

archaphil

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The banter in this thread between you both certainly is most entertaining. And the wiring at the pump, just as stated. Same as mine as I literally had it in my hands this afternoon. Your are not crazy.

meerkat8701

tough question to answer. there are alot of factors and i could go into it in great detail but it would still be only based on my opinion which would be in turn be based on my personal experiences here. i can say that employees here have alot of rights in comparison to alot of other european countries and the income disparity is quite good. income tax is high as **** (32% where i live) but you get your moneys worth and a hefty rebate at the end of the tax year if you work alot. its a good system here. there is also a little factor which i will mention which is called "employer costs" this means basicly that whatever you get payed as an employee, the employer pays double that. roughly calculated, they say that one employee costs approximately one million swedish crowns a year for an employer. this, combined with the fact that after you have worked somewhere for a year you are automatically employed by them and it becomes much more difficult for them to fire you, make for alot of employers that are very reluctant to promise fulltime employment until they know that the person they are going to invest in will be an asset to their company. which is of course completely understandable.
if i had a choice i would just have a normal full time job but i have just had no luck/flow over the last six months and even though i have managed to get a reasonably good paycheck every month, have technically been unemployed the whole time. i have just survived by bouncing from job to job most of which have been sorted out by friends and former colleagues that know im going through a rough patch and have kept their ears to the ground. i am very grateful for their help! as you can imagine this is not a fun way to live but im just having to do what it takes to keep things moving. i hope that i have made sense here

thanks archaphil!
i must say the seven is doing a good job of trying to drive me crazy with all these intermittent problems though

i woke up reasonably early and fairly hungover raring to go only to be reminded that today was the annual cleaning day for our apartment building. its quite nice, a good chance to meet the new neighbours and you get hotdogs and påskmust (read wierd swedish coca cola) at the end so i spent most of the afternoon raking old leaves and clipping hedges. once i was done i rolled over to the garage only to find that we had had a power out. we have been told that itll be back on tomorrow. i took it as a sign and just took a coffee and a chat with roger.
although i got NOTHING done i had a good day. its a funny old life eh?

clokker

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You did fine, thanks.
You might be interested to know that American workers have none of the protections or backup that the Swedish system seems to afford.
Cars aren't everything.

Chrispytater

Firstly, love this thread you and clokker are quite comical, secondly wtf.. Sweden is supposed to be more right wing than Canada and I am paying a total of 41% taxes ! upper middle class sucks in Canada lol

meerkat8701

the rules are in place but this doesnt stop certain nefarious employers from exploiting the loopholes to use unsuspecting employees unaware of ther rights. its the sad truth.

true but i wouldnt mind hearing the old girl sputter to life just so that i know she's capable of it.

*disclaimer*
seeing as the feminist movement is so bloody popular right now among the 'artsy' i feel as i may have to cover my **** concerning my frequent referrals to the seven as a female. in my opinion, women are lovely to look at, (most of em anyway, im not that picky) and so is my seven. hence the reference.
this disclaimer has alot to do with me living round the corner from an arts college. i get feminism crammed down my throat quite regularly. because its so bloody trendy and apparrently equality isnt a no brainer for some people

thanks chrisptater! i must say im not jealous of having to pay 41% but would gladly pay that much to live in a country that doesnt have right extremists in parliment. (google swedish democrats)
plus you guys weather sucks just as much as ours so it wouldnt make that much of a difference hehe =) next stop canada!

little update. turns out that the 'power cut' the other day wasnt one. there has been a dispute between my garage buddy and the guy who owns the garages over money and he has gone and turned off the electricity. and geuss whos piggy in the middle? yep yours truly.

i have actually been to the garage everyday since i last updated and not been able to do anything. i had planned to at least paint the black details matt black but its just cold and dark and i didnt much feel like working with a headlamp freezing me nackers off.
joel helped me a bit today due to my embarressing incompetence with car electronics and he showed me how to confirm a couple of things. the fuel pump works, the relay works, (pictured below)
as you can see i had to use a lamp to light up the area i was photographing due to the darkness..



and this bugger here was getting 9v.

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is 9v enough? roger seemed to think that it should suffice. joel mentioned something about the injectors. can it be them? sorry guys im at a bit of a loss here...

clokker

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Dunno about the S4 but the S5 NA has a variable resistor (controlled by the ECU) in the fuel pump circuit.
It feeds the pump 9v in light load conditions and ramps up to 12v when it thinks necessary.
Or when it feels like it.

meerkat8701

thanks clokker! according to my diagram i have one. i have read that "The pump should see around 12V during load/cruise scenarios and approximately 9V at idle." i dont know if this is the same for the fc3s s4 variable resistor.
if this the case then i can assume that its working correctly.

heres the diagram for mine anyway..

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i dont really know what could be causing me to all of a sudden be getting NO fuel all of a sudden when the motor started and ran a couple months ago just fine. saying that, since then i have removed the motor a bit (to change the engine mounts) and removed and installed the UIM a couple times. i may have missed something during this process but i havent the faintest what it could be. i geuss ill go there tomorrow and see how far i can get. looks like working this out by myself is unavoidable despite my best efforts

clokker

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Fuel feed and return lines reversed?

meerkat8701

i had actually made this mistake when installing the engine the first time. its possible that i have done it again. i should check! good lookin out clokker

meerkat8701

i went through all the pictures i have saved but couldnt seem to trace them on the bloody labarynth the vacuum harness is. so just to make sure...

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im pretty sure i have attatched the feeed hose (the hose that comes from the fuel filter) to the one on the right.

clokker

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I'm pretty sure that on the S5 at least, fuel IN is on the left.

meerkat8701

I am officially the biggest dumbass on the planet. You were right! As embarressing and frustrating it is that it was something so simple, i am at the same time excited as a 5 yr old on christmas eve. Right. Time to move a furk-loada cement blocks again and get her out in the fresh air! Ill update later :-)

placd1

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YAY!! Finally ready to start her up!

archaphil

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It is silly, your car and my new car are twins. well, yours got a new heart, I'm giving mine cpr after not going to the gym for 20 years,and then trying to impress a gal by lifting more then It should.

ha