How bad is stale fuel?

[stephen low]

Cam

Did you fix that spaghetti tangle your first sparky installed?

Guessing it might be hard to trace issues in that rats nest but best of luck anyway!

Cheers

Steve

PS I suspect I should shut up until I've restarted my alternate wiring layout but I've some time until this becomes a reality I guess - best of luck!

[byroncobra]

What a can o worms!

There's some good pics here from Merv who continues to be a great supporter of this forum, be mindful of the diagrams though as my engine is a '93 mustang and quite a few of the wiring colours and component descriptions are different in my car to the published ones. As yours is a a post '00 engine heaven knows how different it will be

I'm pretty much finished wiring mine myself and readying it for the trimmer. I powered it up a few days ago and had headlights coming on instead of parkers and the immobiliser going crazy. It did turn over though and the fuel pump jumped into life.

I've been booked in to the trimmer for 6 months and don't want to reschedule him so haven't time to sort out the bugs before i go away for 5 weeks on Monday. So like you I can look forward to many hours of more electrical fun soon

As Merv said on another post, you'll get to know every wire in the car.

Good luck

Greg

[cameron02]

Geof.....Yes I disconected the fuel lines and then when I lifted the rail a fair bit of fuel came out.

Hi Greg........Get to know every wire There must be over a thousand wires in this sucker. Smart lock, Smart Shield, computer plus Body control module etc. Now that I know whats involved with using the original wiring I would really consider using aftermarket computer and wiring if building again. Good luck with your wiring all you need now is to wear a big red nose and clown shoes for when you press the horn and the wiper jets squirt you in the face.

Ok if all goes well there will be some pics here.
These 2 pics show injectors just before fuel rail removal
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[cameron02]

Ok, now for some engine and wiring pics
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with flash
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another angle
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and the car, close to finished, interior still needs tiding up.
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[byroncobra]

Thanks for the advice I think we've all felt like clowns at times after spending hours on trying to fix something only to overlook the most obvious.

Fortunately my engine hasn't got all the Smartlock stuff, it still took a fair bit of time to sort out the loom though.

Pics look good, great 'out there' colour, I like the little bits of body colour in the trim. Interesting that the intake plenum on the windsors sometimes face in opposite directions.......yours is 180o to mine.

[cameron02]

Thanks Greg,

I'm glad you got the joke, after I posted it I thought "I hope he doent think I'm calling him a clown".

The plenum direction depends on it Being Australian or American. Which ever country your in the intake is to the passenger side. I guessing they do it that way to allow extra room for steering and brake booster etc.

In some of the American cars they used to put the engine off centre to allow for steering. Of course if they released that model in Australia it resulted in the engine being jamed up against the steering. I used to have a 68 Dodge Phoenix [(pillarless model) called Plymouth Fury VIP 3 in the USA]. I put a 440 magnum spec motor in it and you should have seen the twists and turns the custom made headers went through to avoid the steering box.