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Must learn to use a spell checker before posting  Regards, Ian.
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17-11-2007, 12:52
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well seeing as none of the lights come on, it must be quite and early break, like beween both pin switchs and where it branches of to both doors the dash and the interior light.
i enjoy fault finding, tis a challenge tbh 
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17-11-2007, 13:03
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Tbh, I used to enjoy fiddling with the electrics on older cars, like my old Mk2 Escort. But more advanced motors seem to be a lot less accessible, talk about wiring spaghetti...LOL...
Hope you manage to sort it out .Regards, Ian.
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17-11-2007, 19:27
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my car before this was a mk2 escort, was fun tbh, very simple with only 7 fuses for the whole car
plus relays for the spotlights and split charger (had a second Batt in the boot) 
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18-11-2007, 11:41
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That brings back memories...LOL....
My Escort was the first car I bought at 18 (19 years ago  ). Really easy to work on the electrics, with the fuse box being under the bonnet .Mine was the estate version (cos I used to do mobile disco`s back then). I put a full x-pack body kit on her, handbuilt a full wooden dash and centre console, put in RS style black leather-look racing buckets, resprayed her black and diamond white and jacked up the back leaf springs to fit 12 inch wide tyres and capri ghia alloys on the front....LOL... She handled like a snake in the wet...LOL.... but I thought it was cool at the time .I will have to see if I`ve got any photos knocking about. I did that much work on her, that after 4 years I sold her for the same price that I bought her for. Happy days...LOL.... Regards, Ian.
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18-11-2007, 12:01
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lol, i had recaros in mine, and a comfy cortina rear seat sqeezed in, gave a bit more room for speakers in the back shelf with the seats being taller
mine was a mobile disco hahahahhaahh, 5 speed box, that engine with the twin 45 webbers on and it was a 1600cc pinto with a rare 1300cc head with big valves (near the size of the 2ltr ones) on it, this bumped up the compression to 11:1, a piper rally cam allowed it to revved happily to 9500RPM sounded nice, but it became to much work to keep on the road, and shattered 2 RS2000 diffs, then i was offered the silvia.
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18-11-2007, 18:31
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They were superb cars at the time. Virtually everyone I knew had a Mk2 `scort. I had the 1300, which I had bored out to about 1440, with a big valve 1600 head and the twin webers too. I was quite proud of myself, cos I did all the head work on my Mum`s kitchen table...LOL.... and the car actually ran really well after I`d finished working on it (that was a surprise
).Also she had twin-tone air horns for scaring pedestrians and a bus reversing alarm that I wired up to a separate circuit along with a set of spotlights. I used to do a one day a week course in Manchester and the traffic was a bloody nightmare coming home. One flick of a switch, the spots would flash on and off and the bus reversing alarm would sound, it did help to clear traffic out of the way ...LOL....They were pretty bullet-proof motors, cheap for parts (with a lot being interchangable), easy to work on and fairly cheap to run. What more could you ask for a first car  .Regards, Ian. P.s. I really must get some proper work done now, instead of thinking about my past motors....LOL....
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...LOL.
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