mine is a hybrid motor... apparently AA heads are hybrid. tho i havnt checked mine in ages so i forget what mine is... but thats what i was told. i think there is a doco or sticky somewhere on it all

sump hitting the crank?

you should see the sump in my car lol.... after a stupid placement of a jack for the manual conversion.... but its running beautifully with no issues, so how bad was the sump caved in on your car? !!

Whats all this talk about hybrids?

hybrid motors are what ford used at the end of the EL... its an AU head and cam bolted to an EL bottom end. i have the Tickford Hybrid motor so i got a lil more oomph... and some wikid cam whine

....and engines that are prone to head gasket failures.....

jokes...

they have AU bottom end aswell

Hope so, that is what I have! a 98 EL engine.......

if you have a look at the exhaust side of the block where the gearbox support bracket bolts you can see a cast number of what the block is.
eg 91da =eb-ed.. 94da =ed-ef.. 96da =el... wr1a =el hybrid ..wr2a =au

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So the WR1A block and internals would solve all those AU AUX shaft fails when you put dizzys onto the WR2A?

Just checked... looks like I have a 96da - yay!

Well, as long as the bloody engines work, that is all that really matters!

And mine works.

Ok, with news that temps are due to soar over the next few days, I thought as it was relatively cool this afternoon, I might rectify the E2 error the Climate Control was giving me as a result of some dumb bastard (yours truly) not plugging the blend door motor wiring in.

So, hoping to get out of it easily, I left the console in and undid the necessary bolts and tipped the dash back enough to fish out the guilty plug and insert it into the correct device. Then before bolting it all back together, I thought it would be pertinent to retest the Climate Control.

HMMMMMM Still an E2 error (EC error means an issue with the Blend Door motor, in case you didn't know). I went and grabbed the Blend Door motor out of the Red EB, as I knew it was good, and it tested up as fine.

HMMMMM, I could feel the Wagon Blend Door Motor working, so I bit the bullet and ripped out the console and pulled the dash back further, unplugging the left hand side wiring and had a better look.

Well bugger me!!! I said to all who were in the near vicinity.

The Blend Door Motor arm was moving, but the bloody thing wasn't in the blend door itself. It was beside it. F*$&$%*$(#$&N HELL!!!!

A bit of quick thinking later, I unscrewed the front fasteners I had used to secure the Blend Door Motor to the heater box. No easy task, as those who have done this know. There was no way I was going to reach the back one, so with some clever leverage with my trusty long screwdivers, I was able to lift the motor arm up high enough to slip it into the Blend Door lever. YAY!!!! VICTORY!!!!.

Plugged in all the wiring and ran the Climate Control test again, and NO ERRORS!!!!

WOOT!!!!

Bolted it all back together with no issues, and finally I can drive around with normal temp air flowing in to the cabin. The Blend Door defaults to hot if not working, so for the last few days, I have had HOT air coming in the cabin.

Now to work on getting the A/C all gassed up.

Until next time.

BenJ

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Mate -- Are those control arms those plastic ones at far left that always ALWAYS end up breaking one way or another?
Is that the one?
I betcha it is...
Have noticed two out of three of mine have busted in similar ways. One had just plain snapped through about two thirds up, and the other was all there and accounted for, but was somehow stuck on something which took it off the connecting point to the door proper - this could have been possibly been fixed by prodding something like a metal rule up the wall of the car whilst jiggling around with your arm up the interior blend unit entrance. Guess you could never have diagnosed the problem without partial dash removal.

Last time there was vacuum hose error I got at it through back of glove box using long nose pliers selotaped to rods and manged to add a bit to the hoses together using a jointer.

Note to all those becoming future ford designers...
Leave the left side of the dash around the glovebox removable from inside the glovebox.
Thanks.

mine had 96DA written on the block but on the crankshaft mine says wr1a, but yeah as benJ said it dont matter.

Thanks to everyone for clearing up the hybrid topic with me, I learned something today.

Hey ben looks like a little thing like going back to work doesent stop you, but when your climate control doesent work properly i guess there is no choice lol.

Now bring forth the regassing lol.

How are you settleing back at work, still in holiday mode? Or shuld i say (MODDING MODE)?

Josh

You're thinking of the recirc/fresh air flap - coat hanger wire is great for fixing these. The blend door motor sits about halfway along the heaterbox.

When I was installing climate control to my XH, I broke off the upper blend door shaft - had to cut open the heaterbox to repair it properly - this added a lot more hours to the job.