Starter problems on recent manual conversion
Hello all
Me and dad are doing a manual conversion on my vr ute. We have everything bolted in, new gearbox, ecu and instead converting the motor we bought a salvage vehicle and was able to take all the parts that we need off that including a engine for a manual. We now have to get the wiring sorted we have run the new loom run through and plugged it into the new ecu. But then we have found now that we could not get the starter to turn over. We have dash lights and we can hear the fuel pump start up and we had the battery on charge last night so it isnt that.We have also had the starter motor checked and it works fine. So then we decided to get creative and traced the wire that was the culprit, it was a purple wire coming out of the back of the ignition barrel and going to the relay box next to the battery. It then went from the relay box (start relay) to the starter soleniod. When we put a test light on this wire going to the starter solenoid, it had power but the light was pretty dim. We then pulled the start relay out aand ran a wire from where the relay was to the wire going to the starter and hey presto the engine turned over. How have we manged to do this and what can we do to fix it.
We do have pictures but are having problems uploading them, we'll continue to try to put them up but if anyone has an idea about with the starter problem, please let us know.
park neutral switch needs to be bi passed im guessing
check your keys it could be your BCM needs coding again
might need both ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Most likely this ^^^Originally Posted by axemurderer101
Nope - by the sounds he still has the original keys and BCM, no need to change anything there.
Power is measured in DECIBEL
The Grey Man
+1 would be my guess as well
Illegitimi Non Carborundum
( .Y. )
Yeah its your Park/ Neutral switch.
Its a little black rotating switch near your center console. You just need to loop the two P/N together. Just grab a little piece of wire and connect the two together then zoom zoom away ya go....
There should be 3 or 4 connections from memory.
You will find the two you need sooner or later.
Cheers for that guys, took my "manual" ute for a drive today was well worth the blood, sweat and tears.
( .Y. )
Yeah its good funWhat ended up sorting it out?
Oh, and be careful that the clutch cable doesn't rub on the steel power steer line on your steering rack.
It will eventually work its way though it
Last edited by 304runner; 03-09-2011 at 11:56 PM.
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