Saturday, 13 June 2015

On The Road

At last,on the road. I have used a mechanical injector pump taken from a TX1 Taxi, a really fiddly job replacing the pump. With hindsight I should have taken the inlet manifold off, would have made life easier. The pump it's self was easy to fit and time up, the engine started first go, once the air was out. I have keep the standard injectors and turbo setup, it runs sweet with no smoke, even when accelerating hard.

It's hard for me to tell what the driving difference is as I did not drive it much before the conversion and then only carefully as I was always worried it would blow up.Which it did.

It is certainty quieter with this engine even though its an older push rod design and drives very smoothly. Any way it can keep up with the other traffic OK so that's good enough for me. I am now checking the fuel consumption, so fingers crossed it's good because that will be the deciding factor whether or not I keep it.

So all that time and effort trying to get it running with the Maverick ECU was wasted, but to be honest I feel much better now it has the mechanical pump so much less to go wrong. The only thing not working properly is the engine malfunction light, I think I will keep it to remind me of all that work. The rev counter works fine I just wired the Maverick Flywheel sensor straight to the Navara sensor connector I kept the shielded wire in place just in case, in reality there are only 2 wires as the Mavericks 3rd wire connects back to one of the others via a shield wire. The temp sensors are the same and the Navara glow pug system works fine although a bit slower when cold.

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