sh!t-shaped utility motoring

[SoundillusioN]

Love it, its an IOW Ratractor.   

[richw911]

you are really stringing this out, 

I might have to bale 

before things get in a twine 

 

[stow1985]

Funny Feckers 

Good work DH!

[Diamond Hell]

The oil temperature gauge is currently non-responsive.

I have five wires and no wiring diagram.

Can anyone help?

Red
Black
White
Green
Orange

White appears to be illumination, when combined with the black to the negative.

It's a couple of years old smoked-face gauge, with no branding (hence the issue).

Let me know if you know how it should be wired in!

Cheers.

[Diamond Hell]

Both gauges now working correctly, on a switched live VW left lying around the back of the fuseboard.  Both also have the correct illumination.

Dashboard all safely re-assembled.

Oil level still stable at around halfway after three days of commuting this week.

I inserted the valve into the boost line to the ECU this afternoon, but I think it's still turned right down.  I'll look into turning it up a touch in the next few days.

At the moment the bleed is just after the take-off for the boost gauge.  Question is, will the boost gauge not register the extra boost pressure because it's within 10cm of the valve (which vents under the bonnet)?  Don't want to be force-feeding the motor more than I think I am.

[Diamond Hell]

Completed the first brim to brim MPG calc tonight:

528 miles, 45.5 litres

52MPG.

Not been kind.  At all.  Not bad.

[stow1985]

Completed the first brim to brim MPG calc tonight:

528 miles, 45.5 litres

52MPG.

Not been kind.  At all.  Not bad.

Thats crazy, I cant even get that when I'm being very kind, including rolling down hills 

[JC]

blown it up yet 

[Diamond Hell]

Another 530 miles competed.  This time at 51.4MPG.

I've played with the bleed tap a bit and got the boost gauge to top out at 7PSI instead of 10PSI, but that was when the gauge was in-line next to the bleed tap.  I've since re-positioned it to sense just next to the take-off from the manifold, so it is sensing the boost in the manifold, not at the bleed tap.

Since I positioned it there, and despite opening up the tap a fair bit the boost still hits 10PSI and sticks there.

Not sure why this is, the ECU should be allowing the boost to rise past 10PSI, as it shouldn't see the full boost because of the tap.

A re-think is needed.

[Diamond Hell]

Not filled it up since the last post. 

That's a whole month. 

Rolled another 523 miles on it.

Filled it up tonight:

46.44 litres

50.67MPG

Which is on commuter duties and included a run up and back to Tidworth for video duties, which was early on Sunday morning and speeds were commensurate with the travel time on the way up there.

Utility motoring absolutely.

Needs more negative camber on the front and I think the top mounts are clattering a touch.