Technical Parcel from LouieBee...

[Ucof]

Today, when I returned home, I had a parcel of things and stuffs I had bought from LouieBee, including...
A dashboard cluster with rev counter.
An exhaust pipe between engine and air filter.
A wire for the counter that goes between the cluster and the umm.. erm.. actually.. what does it go to?
A distributor cap.


So, once again, I completely forgot to start taking pictures as I started, preferring to start, remove something, then remember to take pictures and start snapping. Here we have the severe lack of pipe between the air filter box by the carb, and the top of the engine. I had already removed it.

Took the metal filter out with a pair of pliers. It was covered in horrible oily crud.

Look! Horrible oily crud!
..oh, and here is a close up picture of the old pipe.

The solution was very hot water, washing up liquid, and a toothbrush!

This cleaned it up a treat! (also, the first ever picture of my fingers! )

Oooooooh! It's very pretty! Just like a spirograph picture!

Put it all back together inside the new tube, after running a clean(ish) oily rag through it, and connected up. Job done!

This is my speedo cable.
His name is Jeff.

Please Say hello to Jeff.

Jeff is pleased to meet you.

What condition is he in? Is he too rounded round the edges? Should he have have right angled chiseled features?
Could this be why my speedo has been so cack and yo-yo like?


This is what he did to himself yesterday.

Usually I give him a hard flick and corrects back to the rough area he should be in, but not this time.
He hurt my finger.
He was stuck fast.

So stuck in fact, he scratched his way into the cluster!

So stuck in fact, he bent himself!

But more on that later. Time for the rev counter cable!
Here is a picture of the hole in the bulkhead that I put the cable through.
It runs from the centre-most (far left) contact on the top right hand side plug on the cluster, to umm...erm.. see top of page.

I have taken the same picture, but with no flash, so you can see the light hole that leads into the engine bay, after you remove a rubber bung

Here is where it pops out, left hand side of the engine bay, against the bulkhead.

Here you can see that, because the wire is soldered onto the plug, I had to run the wire through the loom plug and then through the rest of the engine bay.

All pluged in and screwed back in place. Lets hope I don't have to take it back out to fix anything!

Just testing that all (petrol, temperature and bulbs) gauges work. Don't worry, I managed to catch the hazard light when it was on, it does go out and the indicators work too!

Which of these wires do I need to connect to the rev counter?

EDIT: It's the left-most of the two green wires.


Oh, and I also changed over a distributor cap that LouieBee sent too!

That's about it really. Its taken me over an hour to write this, from taking the pictures from the phone, to typing this. Hope you liked it!

Thanks for the bits LouieBee!

 

[rawill]

Yes I like it, and I have a question.

What is the instrument cluster from? and does Louie Bee have another parcel?

I'd like a cluster like that.

 

[Uno driver]

Orange wire is for rev counter IIRC. Try to pull it out, my was only 5cm long and not connected to anything (uno 60S).

 

[Ucof]

Thanks, will try that in half an hour when I start my lunch break.

Thankfully I got some chock blocks that I can just snap the wire into and connect it up that way.

Will let you know how I get on

Edit - I have now come to two conculsions:

Either:
1) It is not the orange wire

EDIT: It is not the orange wire It is the left-most of the two green wires (as stated in post above)
or
2) the chock box is not making a good contact between the wire from the cluster, and the wire to the engine bay.

I connected it up, turned the key... and nothing

(the connection will be tidied up when it all works of course!)

 

[Louie Bee]

glad you got it safe!!

I had the taco working from the GREEN wire furthest right - and that's what the other scorch lock was for

when you turn the key to the first click, it will filck up for a split second and go back to rest. When you start the engine it will show that your Uno idols at about 2000 rpm .

Hope you've broken nothing there!!

 

[Louie Bee]

Yes I like it, and I have a question.

What is the instrument cluster from? and does Louie Bee have another parcel?

I'd like a cluster like that.

It's from the most rare Uno of all.. the MK2 "70 SX" I got it off ChrisUnoMan a few years ago

only ever seen 1 other which happens to be at my local parts counter

Yes I have loads of other parcels, what do you want to buy off my MK2 Uno?

 

[Ucof]

Thanks muchly!

Will pop that on where I leave work.
The other block is in my car, safe and sound.
Only took it off to make sure I was getting a good contact between the wires to rule out any bad connection issues.

I doubt I broke anthing, it all started up fine. Will let you know if I get home though!

 

[Ucof]

I now have a working Rev counter!
But the "as of this morning" working speedo, no longer does

After finding out which wire I had to connect up, I stripped the wire (I couldn't get the box to slice into the wire enough to make a contact ) and connected up the wire.

I jumped into the drivers seat, with my eyes firmly fixed upon the rev counter needle, I excitedly turned the ignition, and..... nothing

I ended up having to take the cluster out again and looked at the connection between the wire from the rev counter and the wire to the coil. I thought that seeing as the one at the other end hadn't worked, and I was now positive that there was a good contact, that it was probably the box again not making a good contact.
I stripped the end of both wires, connected them together, taped them up, didn't put the cluster back in, again fixing my eyes on the rev counter, turned the ignition of the first setting hoping to see the needle flicker, and.... nothing.
Sh!t

Turned the ignition all the way, and the rev counter needle rose like.... well.. you can imagine what I'm alluding to.

Satisfied that it worked, I put the cluster back in place and screwed it back up, then ran round to the engine bay and taped the wires up.

Closed the bonnet, jumped back in, put the car into reverse, turned round, slammed the car into first and tore away getting a good 3cm of wheel spin
It was at this point that I noticed the speedo needle was going up and down faster than an Essex girl's knickers on a Friday night.
Will look at that later after I have drunk myself a beer

Got the full service tomorrow morning at 8.30 - I wonder what will show up....


(LouieBee - it seems to idle at about 2400rpm, I'll turn this down a little when I go back out to reattach the speedo cable)

 

[Biz]

ill look at that later after I have drunk myself a beer

Lol mate that cracked me up

I'm sure you could improve on the 3cm wheel spin but at the sacrifice of the gearbox! lol

Nice thread though!

 

[Ucof]

I had beer now, and tended to my speedo and gave the throttle cable some slack.
It's all lovely now!

Here is Weapon X, one of our two troublesome cats. He was trying to give me a hand in the engine bay by making sure I wasn't attacked by any little birdies.

Thankfully, he managed to keep them off long enough for me to take a picture of the two nuts that you have to undo in order to lower the idle speed. When looking at the engine from the bumper, you have to turn the nuts anti-clockwise. Do the nearer one first, and then the one further away. Do this with the engine running, whilst stopping to look at the rev counter to see what it currently registers as.

Here is where it is (view from driver's side - it is underneath the air filter, on the left of the carb):

I made sure to use my best pointing finger to make it clearer where I mean, after removing the air filter and the carb cover:

And here is the proof that it all works:

(are those type pressures the same as mine should be?)

I then took the car again down the old faithful bypass (quiet, straight, flat and long!) and took a video to show the speedo isn't all up and downy:


http://www.hyperloophoop.com/Jon/carpics/speedoandrev.3gp - Use VLC Player if you can't view the file. The video is 3mb large.

Right, so the car is going in for a full service tomorrow morning at 08:30
The price will be £130 if they don't find anything wrong.

What can you suggest I get them to inspect, which isn't part of a normal service?
I was definitely going to get them to:

Tighten up my handbrake
Check the timing and adjust as needed
Toying with the idea of getting them to [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waxoyl"]waxoyl[/ame] the entire underneath, but don't know how much this would cost, or even if they will do it at all!

Other than that, Im stumped.
Any recomendations or common faults?
Should I get them to inspect the cambelt? Car has almost 102000 miles on the clock, and I doubt it has ever been changed. Yep, I realise this can be an expensive job

 

[Louie Bee]

Wouldn't worry about the cam belt as the only problem you'll have is being stranded if it snaps. pistons and valves won't meet so time it up slip a new one on (and a tensioner with every belt!!!) and away you go again. I made the mistake of paying to have it done as it was my first non chain car .

Make sure they do the coolant and give it a good flush (if you can't be arsed doing it your self) you'll save a fortune on head gasket. some garages don't change it in less you request it - like the service a few months before my bro's HG went .

Glad you got it sorted

keep your eyes on the road as it's hypnotising at first

Oh ask the garage to loosen the throttle cable . it's not for setting the idol speed, that's the the injection unit's job will save you fuel too.

oh and after they do that and the timing, don't forget to reset the ECU - hmm should you do it before . Depends if you've had the battery off for half an hour recently

LOL @ the knickers :slayer: whers the tag?

 

[Chas Uno]

It's from the most rare Uno of all.. the MK2 "70 SX" I got it off ChrisUnoMan a few years ago

only ever seen 1 other which happens to be at my local parts counter

I had a mk2 SX dashboard until recently Sold it to EssexUno!

 

[Ucof]

Car is now in the garage

I had to cycle back
My legs hurt now.

Car should be ready in about an hour and a half if not a little more.

When I asked originally about the timing, they said they don't have a timing lamp
I asked them about the handbrake and they said it was part of the service anyway, strip everything down and put it back all shiny.

I've updated the tags, I hope they are appropriate

Now.. noob question alert:
How do I reset the ECU?

 

[Louie Bee]

Sure there is an answer if you were to use the search function

along the lines of disconnect battery for at least 30 mins (optionally during this time you can look into the engine bay and polish the turrets as all the settings are lost, but it can do it all by it's self)

re connect battery

with NO electrics on - lights music fan nowt, start the car and let it IDOL till the radiator fan cuts in. upon hearing this delightful sound, turn car off - done!!

it's best to do the throttle cable first - nice and loose

What do you mean, the fan didn't cut in and my head gasket went

Oh, you can check it that Uno sketch on the new clocks represents your proper tyre pressure.. amazingly I’ve always used 1.9 bar on 45HP Unos.

 

[Ucof]

When you say no electrics, do I need to disconnect the clock, the radio (uses charge to keep the correct time) and the dashboard cluster (battery warning light in first ignition position)? They all use electrics!

..and what are the turrets?

You've somewhat lost me..

 

[Ucof]

Back from the garage and the Uno is purring

Idling speed down, seems much happier now.

Cost £140 for:

Oil change
Oil filter
Air filter
Fuel filter
4 Spark plugs
Gear oil
Screen wash (was only 3/4 full anyway )
Brake fluid.

They also took the wheels off and cleaned up the front and rear brakes and probably did some other stuff too


Oh, and LouieBee - I didn't realise you liked My little Pony too, I'll have to email you pictures of some of the rare ones I have collected over the years.

 

[Uno driver]

In my case it was brown wire with white spots for rev counter, I checked today

Glad to hear it works now

 

[Ucof]

negative battery cable has been disconnected

I'm currently cramming pizza into my face, but when that is done, I'll be reconnecting it back up, then letting her run until the fan kicks in, then stop

 

[alexGS]

Cost £140 for:

Oil change
Oil filter
Air filter
Fuel filter
4 Spark plugs
Gear oil
Screen wash (was only 3/4 full anyway )
Brake fluid.

They also took the wheels off and cleaned up the front and rear brakes and probably did some other stuff too

I wonder what Chas is thinking right now. I guess it's your choice to do all the tricky things and pay someone else to do the easy stuff...! The moment they said they didn't have a timing light, that made me shudder. I also wonder what they did to the brakes. But never mind, what's done is done... just, next time, maybe change the engine oil yourself?

Oh, and LouieBee - I didn't realise you liked My little Pony too, I'll have to email you pictures of some of the rare ones I have collected over the years.

Too much information!
Louie at least has the justification of having a little daughter.

-Alex

 

[Ucof]

Yeah, I know I should really.
I know how to do it, it's more just the fact that I don't have a driveway and so have to do all my work in the road

Made me shudder with the timing light too, but meh. They do seem like a good bunch of guys up there, and they seem to actually have to rely on good customer service as they are almost in the middle of nowhere. They also have a steady stream of customers too.

With regards to the brakes, they strip them down, clean them up, adjust and/ or replace pads and so on.

Louie at least has the justification of having a little daughter.

Oh dear. I feel somewhat foolish now.
I'll keep my MLP fetish to myself then

So anyway, I disconnected the negative lead from the battery, left it for 45 minutes, returned to the car, reconnected it back up, started the engine and sat in the car for about 15 minutes until I heard the fan click in. As soon as it did, I turned the ignition off and headed back inside.

Is there anything else I need to do?

Thanks all.