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Welcome to the forum, this should help:-
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If a 12v transformer was able to make the door lock work properly, maybe the battery voltage is being dropped somewhere in the system - I am thinking the earth paths and terminals?

The best colour; not that I'm biased of course!

Hi BB,
I had lock problems recently - viewtopic.php?f=7&t=26557
Maybe some tips in here particularly MGF74's well illustrated post. Good luck!

Set in resin to prevent vibration damage. What scanner did you use? '97 engines were not OBD2 compliant and require T4 or pscan to give accurate codes - and even some of those can be misleading as the fault code systems were still being developed!

I think everything in the ECU is potted.
How about tracing the advance/retard vacuum pipe from the head to the ECU and checking for leaks?

Whilst standard grease guns will work at first, their seals are not needed to be of the highest quality to work with viscous grease. Oil gun seals tend to be better as they have to reach higher pressures to get through valves which is useful working with the viscosity of basically water for our susp...

It sounds like the membrane has gone. Luckily the NSF is the second least awkward sphere to replace! Have you tried regassed spheres all round? Now could be the moment - the difference is astounding. You can buy an oil gun on ebay and transfer the hose with adapter. Although you might be better off ...

That would mean it is all working exactly as it should! ;o)

Not normalised but quite heavily damped. The sensor produces an analog resistance in response to temperature which is probably similar to the jag.
Dieter's wonderful website gives the numbers:-
http://www.mgfcar.de/sensoren

Well investigated and thanks for the forum feedback - I'll bet yours isn't the only one!

Glad to hear you escaped Geoff, I hadn't stopped wondering how to escape the locked door bind. I would be taking the CDL unit out and freeing it all up with the usual WD40 (for the solvents) and then a lubricant for future protection. I wonder if temperature change played a roll - ambient was sub ze...

I wonder what the actual new lambda reading is - pscan shows 0.49v on mine with live data averaging. It wouldn't be the first fail straight out of the box. I too had a MEMS2J lambda which managed to damage itself in a well protected location and the replacement didn't last a year. Much was made of t...

Replaced the clutch slave cylinder seal - easy - which seemed in ominously good condition. Pedal still going to the floor and staying - aagh! So replaced the master cylinder seals, which is not difficult per se. But reconnecting the cylinder and pedal was a nightmare, eventually followed by the nigh...

Hi Bob, From my not huge experience of doing three and helping with several, I would think you are probably ok there. You would have noticed a tooth skip and the marks on the crank pulley and castings are known not to be deadly accurate In the absence of expert K series engine builders the best alte...

I couldn't download the video but from your description I wonder if the smaller terminal on the starter has corroded so that the starter motor is not seeing the 12v when you turn the key. If this is the case you can access the starter motor through the boot grill and remove the spade connector to cl...

A second vote for the window stop from me, having had this problem with my original yellow plastic stops, now converted to the square allen key type in the photo above.

Mine don't have a 'rubber ring' above the wiper arm. I could perhaps see a point in having rubber below, but if I was you I'd leave it out altogether. It might also be that the arm needs tapping further onto the splines. Once the park position has been established, pivot the arm off the screen when ...

You could stick 'gauge sender replacement' into the archive window (top right hand window in the phpBB banner) and search. The procedure is very simple with a cold engine. http://www.mgfcar.de/sensor/gauge_dcp_3953.JPG Remove engine access panel. Remove expansion tank cap to lose any residual pressu...

No 3 is definitely the gauge (blue or black) sender unit failing - a cheap and easy fix by replacement.