Thread: What did you do on your Perentie Today.

Originally Posted by 87County

Hi Rod - just a (hopefully helpful) hint...

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 got my reversing light wired 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.

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

Originally Posted by Disckombi

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

Bugger. Was watching this as my fan motor isnt working either.

Originally Posted by 67hardtop

Bugger. Was watching this as my fan motor isnt working either.

I guess next move is some exploration at the wreckers - now knowing what to look/watch out for

Cheers Ian

Originally Posted by Disckombi

I guess next move is some exploration at the wreckers - now knowing what to look/watch out for

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.

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...