melvinmelvin
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HOW LONG WAS ADAM IN EDEN (few hours)
Following on since it started brilliantly without coolant.
Yesterday:
Connected up the electrical fans on the oil cooler and the thermo switch on the radiator.
Tanked up with coolant - 11-12 liters.
I have a significant voltage drop somewhere in the ignition circuit so must use a jumper cable from battery to close to the ECU loom in order to start.
Started immediately with flying honors. Running SMOOTH AS SILK , as we say, on all 8.
Adjusted idle to 450/500. Checking gauges working.
Stop / start a few times, checking a bit. All 5 oil cooler fans working as they should.
Starting and let it run, want it up to 80+ degrees in order to check that thermo switch and radiator fan relays are working.
After 15 + minutes or so, white smoke spotted from the exhaust pipe serving cylinders 2 and 4. (The exhaust is normally totally invisible.)
What now? Checking by hand the pressure of the exhaust coming out of the pipes, sure - cylinder 2 or 4 not working.
Checking spark plug 2 and 4, they fire OK.
Off with air intake conduit - checking injectors and ther plugs - sure enough - black wire broken in one of the injector plugs.
OK, searching scrapyards for plugs today.
Conclude to run on 7 until warm so that I at least can tick off the thermo switch and the relays as being OK.
Start? Nee way. Stone dead. Not one cylinder firing. Checking wiring around coils and igniters - seem OK. Still stone dead.
Have a spare ECU that I can put in and test next time I decide to have a go.
Getting a bit bored with problems now.
Seems Murphy is following med closesly most of the time and sometimes (too often) he catches up.