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by mr2dave
Mon Apr 23, 2012 7:57 pm
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: [Mk2] [NA] non starter please help
Replies: 1
Views: 343

[Mk2] [NA] non starter please help

Took the engine out of my rev 1, and changed the gearbox, and stripped the engine down at the same time and rebuilt it. Anyway got the engine back in but the had to go away for a few months before i got chance to start it up, so have just got back all motivated to get it going ( apart from the weath...
by mr2dave
Tue Oct 11, 2011 1:09 pm
Forum: MR2 MK2 1990 - 1999 NA & Turbo
Topic: electrical conections please help!
Replies: 10
Views: 794

Re: electrical conections please help!

Think that is nore than enough credentials! lol, camp,is in plymouth. will pm u my e-mail adress
by mr2dave
Tue Oct 11, 2011 9:59 am
Forum: MR2 MK2 1990 - 1999 NA & Turbo
Topic: electrical conections please help!
Replies: 10
Views: 794

Re: electrical conections please help!

Thanks very much for the offers, but unfirtuantly not to shure how possible it would be unfortuantly as its on a military camp
by mr2dave
Mon Oct 10, 2011 10:40 pm
Forum: MR2 MK2 1990 - 1999 NA & Turbo
Topic: electrical conections please help!
Replies: 10
Views: 794

Re: electrical conections please help!

pic 3, makes alot of sense if thats the temp sensor, ( feel an idiot for looking round for the other end!) lol pic 1, don't think it could be the speedo as is to small to reach if i remeber rightly it just on a short wire out of the main loom, as if the should be a wire coming to it (if that makes s...
by mr2dave
Mon Oct 10, 2011 8:19 pm
Forum: MR2 MK2 1990 - 1999 NA & Turbo
Topic: electrical conections please help!
Replies: 10
Views: 794

electrical conections please help!

just put my engine in and have a few conectors i dn't know where the came from the conector is black, sits around the manifold, where the loom goes into the boot for the ecu ](*,) http://i1080.photobucket.com/albums/j334/mr2dave1/Photo0426.jpg this is 2 wires by the alternator, i asume the one with ...
by mr2dave
Sat Oct 08, 2011 4:38 pm
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: [Mk2] [NA] Gearbox trouble urgant help please!
Replies: 13
Views: 759

Gearbox trouble urgant help please!

Didnt even know that was possible! but make sense will try and get them out no doubt it will be a pain like every thing else! lol cheers for all ur help!
by mr2dave
Sat Oct 08, 2011 4:04 pm
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: [Mk2] [NA] Gearbox trouble urgant help please!
Replies: 13
Views: 759

Re: [Mk2] [NA] Gearbox trouble urgant help please!

Sent you the pics. If you need any more I'll try and get them up for you.
by mr2dave
Sat Oct 08, 2011 2:45 pm
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: [Mk2] [NA] Gearbox trouble urgant help please!
Replies: 13
Views: 759

Gearbox trouble urgant help please!

Stuck between a rock and a hard place, can't post pics to explain what i can see. but the gearbox i took off didn't look like that picture, looked the same as the one i put on, but never checked where the driveshaft went in, and now got rid of the old one so can't even compare! what a nightmere this...
by mr2dave
Sat Oct 08, 2011 1:22 pm
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: [Mk2] [NA] Gearbox trouble urgant help please!
Replies: 13
Views: 759

Gearbox trouble urgant help please!

Auto or manual? things are looking up.......... not! lol
everything else has matched up fine on the box apart from the shafts, thats why i am a bit bermused by all this
(i have a manual if makes any difference what so ever?)
by mr2dave
Sat Oct 08, 2011 12:51 pm
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: [Mk2] [NA] Gearbox trouble urgant help please!
Replies: 13
Views: 759

Gearbox trouble urgant help please!

No it doesn't, is that a turbo box? trying to post sum pics atm but my fone wont let me
by mr2dave
Sat Oct 08, 2011 12:06 pm
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: [Mk2] [NA] Gearbox trouble urgant help please!
Replies: 13
Views: 759

Gearbox trouble urgant help please!

there are no holes for the drive shafts, when i brought the gearbox and shafts was told they were both n/a, maybe have been miss informed? will try and post sum pics.
by mr2dave
Sat Oct 08, 2011 9:40 am
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: [Mk2] [NA] Gearbox trouble urgant help please!
Replies: 13
Views: 759

[Mk2] [NA] Gearbox trouble urgant help please!

I have a rev1 n/a and have just changed the gearbox to a rev3 due to a worn down 5th gear. i brought rev3 drive shafts, but when i went to fit them yesterday could get them to fit for love nor money, the end is splined, but when examing the gearbox there was nothing for the splines to go into, its s...
by mr2dave
Sat Jul 09, 2011 11:08 am
Forum: Past Events
Topic: Lands End to John O'Groats July 2011
Replies: 8
Views: 3028

Re: Lands End to John O'Groats July 2011

On my way down from john o groats atm, as part of a charity cycle ride, beeing a safty driver, and have to say anyone who loves a bendy road and awsome sceanery has to take to A82 around the lochs. some of the best streches of road and views i have seen! would rather take that way and have fun than ...
by mr2dave
Fri Mar 04, 2011 7:05 pm
Forum: Electrical
Topic: [Mk2] [NA] wiring loom, how hard can it be? lol
Replies: 3
Views: 619

Re: [Mk2] [NA] wiring loom, how hard can it be? lol

have the correct wires fitted now! and have had them doubble checked, if i remember off the top of my head theres 3 going to it two going to a stud, and one with a plastic conector. Have given it to a friend whos going to try and find a rectify the fault for me................hopefully, as am away n...
by mr2dave
Mon Feb 21, 2011 6:36 pm
Forum: Electrical
Topic: [Mk2] [NA] wiring loom, how hard can it be? lol
Replies: 3
Views: 619

[Mk2] [NA] wiring loom, how hard can it be? lol

I was doing some work on my 2 a while back and long story short managed to cross and earth with the starter motor, as you might imagine this didn't go down to well at all with the electrics! The engine wont turn over and have narrowed it down to an earthing faut......... somewhere!! but where is any...
by mr2dave
Fri Dec 17, 2010 4:45 pm
Forum: Electrical
Topic: [Mk2] [NA] earth cable... where does it go?
Replies: 2
Views: 517

Re: [Mk2] [NA] earth cable... where does it go?

A ha i see!!! cheers for that!
by mr2dave
Thu Dec 16, 2010 6:27 pm
Forum: Electrical
Topic: [Mk2] [NA] earth cable... where does it go?
Replies: 2
Views: 517

[Mk2] [NA] earth cable... where does it go?

I was doing work the otherday on my car which ment that i needed to remove a eath cable, and now stupidly i can't for the life of me remember where the hell it goes :oops: Its on the left hand side of the engine bay, it quite a thick eath cable coming from the top of the gear box and the other end a...
by mr2dave
Tue Dec 07, 2010 4:19 pm
Forum: Electrical
Topic: [Mk2] [NA] starter motor wires, need help screwed up majorly!
Replies: 5
Views: 726

Re: [Mk2] [NA] starter motor wires, need help screwed up majorly!

once i stopped flapping, as this happened an hour befor i had to leave for the week :cry: and thought about it, it must be an earthing fault because it was a sensor wire which was smoking, and as electricity goes though the path ofleast resistance and obviously sensor wires dn't carry half as much a...
by mr2dave
Mon Dec 06, 2010 7:28 pm
Forum: Electrical
Topic: [Mk2] [NA] starter motor wires, need help screwed up majorly!
Replies: 5
Views: 726

Re: [Mk2] [NA] starter motor wires, need help screwed up majorly!

thats what i thought! must be a fault somewhere else! :(
is there an earth for the starter motor?
by mr2dave
Mon Dec 06, 2010 3:42 pm
Forum: Electrical
Topic: [Mk2] [NA] starter motor wires, need help screwed up majorly!
Replies: 5
Views: 726

Re: [Mk2] [NA] starter motor wires, need help screwed up majorly!

BUMP!

Really need some help if anyones knows, or could go and look at there 2?
i have a n/a rev 1, if theres difference between the revs?

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