Khare's problem thread - Engine mount and screeching noise page 15. EUROPE TRIP!

[Khare]

As I said, all the sensor loom was taken off and Inspected. Saw no major breaks in wires. I'll get a pic of the earth point that danny wired in, I think it *may* be the problem. The one you wired in danny, which is the hall sender>head ground is the one connected to the temp sensor.

I won't find another 16v in the local scrappy for a good few months now, some tit chopped every single wire in the loom in the abf that was there.

[Horney]

Should have stayed 8v

Nick

[Khare]

What does short circuit to positive mean? That's the error code I was shown, as intermittent. Does it mean it's grounding out elsewhere?

[Horney]

Sounds like it mate. You need to ideally check every cable for leaks to ground with a multimeter while wiggling the harness.

Nick

[Khare]

What so stick one probe in the positive to the temp sensor then touch various earths to spot it?

[rubjonny]

did you actually unwrap the whole thing though so you could inspect the wires from the round plug all the way to the sensors?  if not do that if you did take it off again and do a continuity test from round plug to all of the sensor pins, its possible for a wire to look ok but for the copper to be snapped inside. a wiring loom i was working on one of the earths didnt work, no breaks in the wire but when i chopped the wire back and attempted to strip the insulation the copper had turned to powder

[Khare]

Well I did a continuity test from the round pin to the plug on the CTS. The earth that is connected to it is the one connected to the earth in the hall sender which earths in the engine block, where the coil earths.
I did unwrap the whole thing, wires looked ok but oily and some a tad brittle.

[Khare]

Ideally I'd like to replace the complete loom. I need to get some pics of the current one, some bodger has been hacking it and fixing it. It's the sensor loom that's worse for wear, but around the starter motor it's pretty messy too.

[Khare]

It is driving me NUTS! Car refused to start today at the petrol station, started fine, but as soon as I accelerated it would bog down and die. When I put the clutch in the revs stay at the same spot for a second or two then drop to about 400 and back up to about 2000, sometimes staying there and others dropping to 400 again.
Does anyone know, where the ground for the CTS goes? As I said, the hall sender has a ground coming off it's earth wire which grounds to the cylinder head. If I put the multimeter on continuity it beeps if I stick one probe in the earth plug of CTS and one in the earth for the hall sender. Maybe it's mixed up or something? Although it was running fine before hand.

RJ, did you read my PM?

[danny_p]

checked the CPS yet ?