PeeBee
12th October 2016, 07:17 PM
I have my 1997 GQ Patrol over at Brunswick Diesel in WA for 6.5 conversion - it has finally left them and is on the way to Perth then Melb. The past week has ben a series of 'release delays' being one problem after another popped up, so rather than simply work to the script, the guys at Brunswick stuck with it and have solved them all, or at least I think I may still have the one problem and its going to bounce back at me.
The tacho on my vehicle started bouncing around crazy and irratically before I sent it over there, then it settled down so I thought nothing of it. The conversion was more or less complete and then the original tacho dies completely. A s/h tacho was sourced and put in, only for this one to run ok, then go crazy as well, finally dying. A third tacho has now gone in and with 'some fancy re-wiring, all is good'. I have had a discussion with Greg at Brunswick and he can't recall seeing this before, nor knows whats causing it. There are no auxiliary items hooked up in the conversion right now to be giving a feedback from what I know that might be causing a 'voltage spike' as it was described. The entire aux circuits or the car are dead as the dual battery system is removed for the conversion.
Does anyone have any idea what might be happening here? I don't know the detail around the bypass, but will find out, however its root cause that remains a mystery. For all intensive purposes its a 2.8 wiring loom with a piggy back adapter loom for the engine. The fault started pre the conversion, but remains after it - I am sure of that. I fear its going to pop up again after i get it back, and although it only stops the tacho, will remain annoying.
Hope those brighter than me electrically have some clues. I have been over every visible earth point and removed, cleaned, and reseated that i can find.
The tacho on my vehicle started bouncing around crazy and irratically before I sent it over there, then it settled down so I thought nothing of it. The conversion was more or less complete and then the original tacho dies completely. A s/h tacho was sourced and put in, only for this one to run ok, then go crazy as well, finally dying. A third tacho has now gone in and with 'some fancy re-wiring, all is good'. I have had a discussion with Greg at Brunswick and he can't recall seeing this before, nor knows whats causing it. There are no auxiliary items hooked up in the conversion right now to be giving a feedback from what I know that might be causing a 'voltage spike' as it was described. The entire aux circuits or the car are dead as the dual battery system is removed for the conversion.
Does anyone have any idea what might be happening here? I don't know the detail around the bypass, but will find out, however its root cause that remains a mystery. For all intensive purposes its a 2.8 wiring loom with a piggy back adapter loom for the engine. The fault started pre the conversion, but remains after it - I am sure of that. I fear its going to pop up again after i get it back, and although it only stops the tacho, will remain annoying.
Hope those brighter than me electrically have some clues. I have been over every visible earth point and removed, cleaned, and reseated that i can find.