A couple of quick questions for a little help please!

[twinturbo]

Don't ground anything that does not have an eyelet tag.

The ecu 60 pin is a 10mm bold and pushes throught the bulkhead and connects to three plugs behind the battery.

Don't angle grind near the fuse box, just unclip everything and it will pull out fine. ( i swapped looms on a sierra in 2hrs. )

The thing on the drivers inner wing is the mixture adjuster.

If you remind me I will have a look for that blue connector, it does not ring a bell at present. I will look at my loom. If that fails give me the colour codes and I will reference the bible.

TT

[ashbudd7]

Thanks twin, some useful advice there. What made you say don't ground anything without an eyelet? Are you referring to the rear connector I'm asking about? I'm just wondering if that is a part of a ground circuit taking ground wires through to the cabin from the engine bay. Iirc the cables are brown and black on both the off and near side.
So with the ecu it would be easier to unclip the the connectors and push them through?
Mixture adjuster...check
Don't forget the blue connector (only joking, no rush). When you say the bible, are you referring to Haynes manual or a Ford book?
And I will angle grind around the fuse box....after I've removed it - just for fun! But seriously, when you say unclip everything, do you mean from underneath the fuse box itself? I'm assuming there are some bolts/screws holding it in place - are these accessible from inside the drivers footwell?


Thank you so much, and sorry for more questions but you have already been a great help!

Ash

[twinturbo]

The bible is the ford diagrams.

The fusebox is held in by 4 nuts, 8mm or 10mm i forget, but if you unclip the looms and pull them back the whole lot comes out through the fusbox hole. the engine bay lamp loom has to be pushed into the car first.

the ecu plug pushes though the bulkhead towords the engine bay, it feels like it won't but it does.

sierras have very few earths, all are on crimped eylets and should be brown from memory and located... Battery, headlamp panel left, headlamp panel right, kick panel left , kick panel right, steering column.


I am trying to place the 2 pin connctor in my mind.

TT

[twinturbo]

I sit on the body loom rather than the engine loom. and the wires one black and one green.

TT

[ashbudd7]

Its on the loom that is not the one with the injectors, so I'm guessing yes, it's the body loom. However I had a quick look this morning and the wires are blue/brown and red/brown?
The fusebox thing makes sense and I'm sure I'll be ok with the ecu, thanks.
The cables I'm talking about aren't actually attached to the body, rathe go through as you can see in the pic. The one just behind the mixture adjuster. There is another exactly the same going through the panel in an identical position on the other side of the car?

Thanks
Ash

[twinturbo]

ahhh,

the one going through the inner wing is the side repeater lamp.

[ashbudd7]

Now I feel silly! That is so obvious now! Thanks twin