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Happy
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 Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 1:21 am Post subject: New tech doco - Replacing Central Locking |
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That's right folks,
Many thanks to Kris (kday) for putting together a doco on how to replace your pesky and worn out factory central locking with an after market kit from Jaycar.
Head over to http://www.fordmods.com/phpBB2/documents.php?doc=74 and check it out.
Kris joins the ever growing number of members who are contributing to Fordmods.
More are in the pipeline so stay tuned. If you have something you have put together or need some help please let me know!
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| Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 7:51 am Post subject: |
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| Thats is a really well put together doco. Nice work. |
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| Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 8:05 am Post subject: |
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Good doco, but does it still work with the factory keyfob. I have the steelmate alarm, and it came with its own remote. Also, wouldnt it just be easier to replace the actuators with the jaycar items and that is the end of the wiring. Any advice, as i need this for the 5.0, my drivers door will now only respond to the key in the lock
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| Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 9:23 am Post subject: |
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At a guess, I'd say you could use the Jaycar actuators with the smartlock trigger... someone can confirm though!  |
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| Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 9:31 am Post subject: |
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| TerroristGHIA wrote: | | Good doco, but does it still work with the factory keyfob. |
Yes, provided you have a master actuator wired in with the other slaves. Bear in mind that if a door is not closed properly, the actuators will unlock again, but you won't get the horn blipping to notify you - though it's not hard to close doors properly.
My XH is wired to work with either alarm or smartlock central locking.
| TerroristGHIA wrote: | | I have the steelmate alarm, and it came with its own remote.. |
Hook the alarm lock/unlock lines to the corresponding BEM lines (yellow/black & red/yellow)and to the lock/unlock lines of the relay unit.
| TerroristGHIA wrote: | | Also, wouldnt it just be easier to replace the actuators with the jaycar items and that is the end of the wiring. |
They're not a direct wiring replacement. You can wire up all units as slaves, but there are trade offs - will work with alarm keyfob only, not smartlock keyfob, can't lock all doors using keylock - so best to add a master.This means adding 2 wires to the drivers door.
| TerroristGHIA wrote: | Any advice, as i need this for the 5.0, my drivers door will now only respond to the key in the lock
Brett |
Is this with the std actuator system ?? |
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| Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 11:02 am Post subject: |
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good work! now you just need to update his avatar to the 'tech cont.'!  |
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| Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 11:19 am Post subject: |
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Again, well done Kris.
Ford actuator problems are now an easy fix - Get rid of 'em . . . . . |
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| Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 12:08 pm Post subject: |
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| uglybob wrote: | | good work! now you just need to update his avatar to the 'tech cont.'! |
done! 
maybe a Q & A section at the end of this doco would be a good update ? |
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| Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 7:48 pm Post subject: |
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| There is a better way. Had a Cyclops alarm fitted to a friends EL (any alarm with a immobliser will do I spose). The immobliser shuts down the smartlock system and the central locking is disabled from doing it's spastic attacks. |
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| Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 7:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Will get info on how it is done |
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| Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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| i used to have a cyclops alarm fitted, my locks still went spastic every now and then ... finally replaced the passenger actuator and all gone! |
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| Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 10:14 pm Post subject: how do i start a ford cruise group in mackay |
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| can anyone help me in organising a cruise group in mackay where i live any6 help would be great on how and what i need to do to get started any help would be great ty i have a msn its damian_e_janke_1979@hotmail.com my wife has a e mail site its tarshie_da_babe_1080@hotmail.com ty for ur help ur site is so cool i this might help ur mods part i pulled my dash apart and removed my speedo cluster and painted the black surround silver when its in u have a silver surround intsead of a black one it looks cool ill take a photo of it and put it on ur site from elfalcon ty |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 10:26 am Post subject: |
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Since threadmining is pretty popular lately, I hope this one is reasonably useful . . . . .
The aftermarket actuators sound better than the originals as we know, but I've found in the wagon's particularly, they are pretty noisey, with a particular metal rapping noise. The actuator boots seem to split also over time also.
You can fit 5 watt resistors inline, to reduce the force - you may need to experiment with the size to get the desired effect, too high resistance, and they won't have full travel.
I've found 3.3ohms for the rears, and 2.2.ohms for the fronts, seems to work well - the noise refinement is nearly of the std of a BA. |
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