Bit of a story but a good ending.
Back in January one day away from parking the beast up for the usual 10 -14 month stasis as I need to go away to work to afford to feed the 4.6. I was at my local market in Crimea when I came back to the beast for a beep beep beep engine immobilised. Oh bugger you and went to enter the EKA code as I know it so well as I used it every year on start up after the usual 10 month off battery shut down. However this time no joy, Bugger. Came to this site and researched and became convinced it was the door lock assembly micro switch. Good on Mozz Smith for giving assistance but to no avail it was the gremlins.
Had the Beast evacuated to my parking space not 200 mtrs away and jacked it up and put it on axel stands to protect the tyres and suspension for the time away as usual.
10 months later I am due to travel back to Crimea and got in touch with Rimmer Bros as they have the part but not for my VIN number on the website. Gave them a call and spoke to a bloke called Rodger I think or George hey ho they were great I gave him the Beasts vin and a short time later he came back with the part number and the cost.
So after sacrificing my first born child for the cost of the part the part was on its way. I picked the part up in UK and brought it back here to Russia.
Went to my parking space to find the usual curtesy of Russian drivers who had parked too close for comfort so without scratching the prats door managed to remove and replace the door lock assembly and given all the bars and linkages and many curse words got it done. What a bloody mission that was (this is where members chime in of the easy way to do it) So the new part is fitted, re connect the battery and beep beep beep no lights on the dash. No problem says I. I have an auto assist battery jump starter that I have had on charge since yesterday for just such a thing. Schoolboy error at home connected to the mains it said fully charged not so in real life.
Battery in this thing is fooked. New jump assist is 12000 rubels so I stripped it down and inside its basically a bike battey so for 3200 rubels bought a bike battery.
Re built the battery assist, clamped it to the beast and put the key in the ignition.
This is where the magic happens.
The dash lights up, not brightly but lights up with no Beep Beep and no engine immobilised so just turned the key and the engine cranked not overly fast but kept hold of the key in the belief the beast would start as I thought this jumper is a one shot deal and it fired and ran...……..yeah go the beast. not having run for months just ran and no EKA code. Yea go the beast the lovely pain in the arse P38.
Back in January one day away from parking the beast up for the usual 10 -14 month stasis as I need to go away to work to afford to feed the 4.6. I was at my local market in Crimea when I came back to the beast for a beep beep beep engine immobilised. Oh bugger you and went to enter the EKA code as I know it so well as I used it every year on start up after the usual 10 month off battery shut down. However this time no joy, Bugger. Came to this site and researched and became convinced it was the door lock assembly micro switch. Good on Mozz Smith for giving assistance but to no avail it was the gremlins.
Had the Beast evacuated to my parking space not 200 mtrs away and jacked it up and put it on axel stands to protect the tyres and suspension for the time away as usual.
10 months later I am due to travel back to Crimea and got in touch with Rimmer Bros as they have the part but not for my VIN number on the website. Gave them a call and spoke to a bloke called Rodger I think or George hey ho they were great I gave him the Beasts vin and a short time later he came back with the part number and the cost.
So after sacrificing my first born child for the cost of the part the part was on its way. I picked the part up in UK and brought it back here to Russia.
Went to my parking space to find the usual curtesy of Russian drivers who had parked too close for comfort so without scratching the prats door managed to remove and replace the door lock assembly and given all the bars and linkages and many curse words got it done. What a bloody mission that was (this is where members chime in of the easy way to do it) So the new part is fitted, re connect the battery and beep beep beep no lights on the dash. No problem says I. I have an auto assist battery jump starter that I have had on charge since yesterday for just such a thing. Schoolboy error at home connected to the mains it said fully charged not so in real life.
Battery in this thing is fooked. New jump assist is 12000 rubels so I stripped it down and inside its basically a bike battey so for 3200 rubels bought a bike battery.
Re built the battery assist, clamped it to the beast and put the key in the ignition.
This is where the magic happens.
The dash lights up, not brightly but lights up with no Beep Beep and no engine immobilised so just turned the key and the engine cranked not overly fast but kept hold of the key in the belief the beast would start as I thought this jumper is a one shot deal and it fired and ran...……..yeah go the beast. not having run for months just ran and no EKA code. Yea go the beast the lovely pain in the arse P38.