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Hi Rod - just a (hopefully helpful) hint...Quote:
Originally Posted by 67hardtop
You're probably aware, but just in case you're not, the standard Perentie reverse light setup needs the engine to be running for the reverse lights to function.
I've bypassed this by wiring my reversing light to a dash switch which has a warning LED.
Thank. I was wondering what the extra switch on the oil sender was for. I suspected it was for the reverse lights. My s3 diesel engine has the same setup.Quote:
Originally Posted by 87County
Cheers Rod
This weekends job was replacing the heater fan.
Having pulled the heater out (which required disconnecting the alternator and starter wiring because someone had run the harness through rather than behind the lower heater bracket) I fed the fan motor with WD40 and got it to run - but not as fast as it should.
Solution was to replace fan with one out of a 70 series Toyota (one of my sons has a thing about 70 series and had a couple of spare heaters)
Anyhow only needs slight mods to fit the LR fan snail.
While there got carried away and replaced foam seals and foam on flaps in the heater, which took a lot longer than the fan.
Now all assembled and painted up - reinstall tomorrow when paint dry.
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Sitting sorting out wiring for the "new" heater fan motor amd just realised that 70 series fan impeller is reverse pitch to the LR impeller - can run motor in reverse but thwn impeller efficiency is poor.
Impellers also not swappable so it's been a somewhat wasted exercise.
Ian[bigsad]
Bugger. Was watching this as my fan motor isnt working either.Quote:
Originally Posted by Disckombi
I guess next move is some exploration at the wreckers - now knowing what to look/watch out forQuote:
Originally Posted by 67hardtop
Cheers Ian
Well it seems that not too many heater fans run in the same direction as the Defender/Perentie. Best I could find was from a 1998 Magna (similar in same era Lancers and Nissan Pintarra), problem being that the impellers are slightly bigger than the hole in the LR casing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Disckombi
Anyhow after some adjustment to the hole with the die grinder I got it fitted (nowhere near as neat and easy as the Toyota fan had been) and running OK on the bench using the existing resistor to get the two speeds.
Once reinstalled there was however no action - power available, but an issue with the switch and/or earthing thereof - yet to be sorted out.
Ian
Had a mate come around today, he helped me find the wires under the bonnet for the fuel gauge and low fuel light. Now just gotta find where they are under the vehicle. Prob been cut off by the PO. He was NOT very mechanicly minded at all. Im still fixing his stuff ups and wiring patch ups when i find them.
Cheers Rod
Found the wires. Cut into the harness near to where it disapears into the chassis. Located the wires and patched into them and made a small harness from fuel tank to main harness. Then filled 12ltrs diesel into tank. Watched fuel gauge. It moved. Yay got a working fuel gauge and a proper fuel tank now. Im pleased. Now just some other niggly things like getting reverse lights connected and working...
Well, after a few big weeks the 6x6 is back together. I replaced all the shocks with Old Man Emu ones including the rear shock mounts so now they are all pin/pin type cylinders. I stripped the cab and applied the car builder brand butyl sound deadener to all surfaces, 6mm foam to the walls, transmission tunnel, doors and roof and then re did the vinyl floor with a mass loaded vinyl all the way up the bulkhead to the underside of the dash. I filled all the gaps where the gear levers penetrate the tunnel and where the wires penetrate the bulkhead with a closed cell foam. The interior plastic trims where all perishing and cracked so I covered these with carpet to tidy them up and also to help absorb some of the sound.
While I had the cab apart I installed interior led lights with door switches, central locking, a stereo head unit with a reversing camera so I can safely get out of the Coles car park as well as one of those new fang dangle XRS uhf radios from GME. I've just ordered a new fascia plate from the laser cutters for the roof console as this is where I mounted the radio, light switches and UHF.
All in all it was a bigger job than I expected and it was a bit of a challenge refitting the trims after adding the thickness of the carpet and sound deadening but well worth it. The truck is still noisy by nature but it has taken the edge of and now I can actually have a conversation at 100ks an hour.
