fanatic said:

Went and briefly looked at a rover p5 with a 3.5efi engine in it.

It appears to have been converted after a fashion timing all to cock and runs like a bag of **** if you try timing it up correctly.

Dubious wiring diagram which seems to be missing a tune resister for non cat/saudi tune and haven't been able to get further into it due to time so far:doh:
why do I have a feeling I'll regret this:doh:

Has auto box and there is manual transmission resistor fitted on auto box setup for a start from what can be deciphered from notes.

No mention of tune resistor, but engine code suggests 1986 on from memory efi-autodata tomorrow to see what it comes from.

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3.5 efi said:

wtf is a manual transmission resistor? if its an 86 will be flapper, no cats, saudi got carbs

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vougese39 said:

Get the ecu fault read to see what it is doing rather than guess

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fanatic said:

Yes I'm aware of that, but having had a ten minute look at someone else's less than SPECIAL handy work.

There is no point getting excited about Fault codes until the basics like state of wiring/timing and if it has the right tune resistor fitted

For my sins I have arranged to have a proper look at it and see what this conversion job is like. the timing is all to cock for a start.

I'll get some pictures of it when it appears-I haven't got as far as checking if the diagnostic socket is still attached yet from this "transplant"

Forgive me for wanting to visually assess what I'm looking at, before venturing further with it.

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vougese39 said:

As the ecu holds the faults can't see how playing and guessing will help but hey ho!
Me personal read the faults rectifie them then see what issue arises

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fanatic said:

Do we not speak English, can you not read?

when was the last time you saw a car engine stop indicating tdc:doh: checking tdc does not correspond to marks

That the timing marks are on second pulley -checking tdc the marks are not on correct as way out.
It appears key way woodruff must be missing or something odd-will remove and find out

It was obvious that it was too far advanced when you tried to use timing marks that wrongly indicate false TDC which I checked by bringing upto tdc

For your information I marked up tdc with scribe and will unbolt find out what is going on and refit pulley so marks line up correctly-it starts runs and drives now- as soon as the pulley is on I will recheck timing, get fault codes and co2 checked

I do not disagree that it is worth checking the fault codes, but wind your ego in and realise that an obvious timing issue is the first place to start.

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vougese39 said:

it is not a case of wind my ego in more a case of you think before you type!
99% of running faults is people who just gues at what is wrong yes you have stated the fault with the timing which i can only asume you have dialed in correctly?
but again guessing at what is the fault is fool hardy and a waste of money but again what do i know? only spend 9 hours a day 7 days a week fixing customers cars around the country never had to gues because im that good ask fett lol

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