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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 11:10 pm 
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Hi All,

As the title says, I ripped the electronic shift kit out of my EL today, and now the transmission is stuck in Limp Home Mode - ie takes off and stays in third gear.

The shift kit was obviously wired into the ECU loom, and to remove it I simply clipped the 3 wires that were going to it.

Any ideas anyone?

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Justin.
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 11:16 pm 
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Well from memory, one wire spliced into an ECU wire, the other two are joined to another ECU wire which is cut.
Revisit the shift kit thread (started by 'Neds') and that should direct you to the site that has the circuit info.
You can then figure out which two wires that need to be rejoined.
That hopefully should solve your problem.

 

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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 11:32 pm 
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snap0964 wrote:
Well from memory, one wire spliced into an ECU wire, the other two are joined to another ECU wire which is cut.
Revisit the shift kit thread (started by 'Neds') and that should direct you to the site that has the circuit info.
You can then figure out which two wires that need to be rejoined.
That hopefully should solve your problem.


Thanks mate, will give it a try next time I'm home in day light!
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 12:22 am 
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NP.
Have a look at http://members.ii.net/~hsv/myELdiagram.png .
You need to join together wire 2 and 3.

So how do you find wire 1?? It should have 12v on it when Ign is turned on. Hopefully it is the only one that does :shock: .

 

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should be a dark green wire, goes to pin 38 on the ECU, S5 solenoid.
I just installed a shiftkit this arvo :P

 

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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 9:41 am 
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Yeah i'd say you just need to repair that S5 wire - return continuity to it!!

 

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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 12:45 pm 
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Kids shouldn't be allowed to play with side cutter when they don't understand the wiring :shock: :shock: :twisted:

 

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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 5:21 pm 
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GTBob wrote:
Kids shouldn't be allowed to play with side cutter when they don't understand the wiring :shock: :shock: :twisted:


Agreed, but I aint no kid, and really should know better! It was getting dark and I'd been doing a heap of other stuff to the car and I thought stuff it, I'll quickly pull this off - was too tired to think it through though!
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Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 11:14 pm 
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You should rename the title of this thread "Things go wrong when you aint paying attention"
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Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 11:30 pm 
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-GAS-MAN- wrote:
You should rename the title of this thread "Things go wrong when you aint paying attention"
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Doing a bit of mining are you?!
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Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 12:22 am 
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Actually, the current title is perfect for searches - it already tells you exactly what the thread is about.
BTW: Did you end up sorting this problem out ??

 

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To answer original post, it sounds like you just cut the wires. That means that one solenoid (prob S5) wasn't connected at all hence LHM. All you really need to do was to reconnect all the same coloured wires.

 

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Why did you take the shift kit out???? :shock: :?

 

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Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 11:15 am 
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snap0964 wrote:
Actually, the current title is perfect for searches - it already tells you exactly what the thread is about.
BTW: Did you end up sorting this problem out ??


Thanks mate, yep it's always good to make the title as informative as possible.

Yep sorted the problem out - wrecked the car!
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Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 11:16 am 
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Why did you take the shift kit out???? :shock: :?


Wrecked the car.
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