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- Tenth Dan Tetris Gnu
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Re: Escort van. Round 2 ding ding.
Are you referring to the crashed one? Theres certainly nothing miserable about the surroundings in the photo of the van and Peugeot. Except for timewasting wankers on facebook
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Re: Escort van. Round 2 ding ding.
How hard would it be to fit the clocks from an up market escort with the rev counter in? I reckon they'll be prewired and the rev counter would work.
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Re: Escort van. Round 2 ding ding.
I'm not sure. It would be hard enough finding a set of clock let alone a diesel set. A lot of diesels were either pov spec or turbo diesel. The turbo diesel had more electronics on it too. Mine has an ecu but fuck knows why.
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Re: Escort van. Round 2 ding ding.
On petrol mk3 & 4 escrotes there was one wire to change behind the clocks - the perm 12v for the clock had to be connected to the coil for the rev counter. Never touched one that'd got the devil's fuel though.
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Re: Escort van. Round 2 ding ding.
If I recall,the rev counter takes a feed pulse from alternator. I've done a bit of researching about the ecu too and from what I can see it is for immobiliser which is easily bypassed anyway and the egr valve which it doesnt have. Or any other sensors for that matter.
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Re: Escort van. Round 2 ding ding.
Alternator makes sense with diesel, pretty sure that was how it worked in my LR years ago.
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Re: Escort van. Round 2 ding ding.
Connect to the W terminal on the alternator if I remember correctly
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Re: Escort van. Round 2 ding ding.
Get an instrument cluster off an LX diesel.
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