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Jimny not starting following body change
- Tom1357
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Idea being, transfer my axles, engine, suspension etc over, and for less work I have a caged truck with a solid body.
We've done most of the work but the engine won't start, turning over fine but no spark and it's flashing the engine management light pointing to a immobiliser fault.
Truck is currently using my engine, ecu, wiring loom, but the interior loom is from the later truck and the wiring looks a little different, the pickup ring looks different and the plug for the additional little immobiliser box thing is different on the new truck , I can plug my older little immobiliser box into the wiring, but the plug doesn't use all pins so can't be right.
Has anyone ever done this swap? Am I best trying to just get the immobiliser removed completely off my ecu, or swapping my interior loom/dash from my old truck into new? I'm assuming once my loom is over, all looms will be from old truck, as will ecu, engine etc, so should work.
I'm struggling to find much info really, as most who swap engines obviously keep the year/engine type similar to keep it easy and to avoid these issues!
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I don't think you can delete the immobiliser from the ecu?. I could well be wrong though.
Hopefully someone will pop up to confirm or tell me i'm typing rubbish shortly.
It's been fettled just a tad.
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Or your other option is to buy an after market ecu and all those issues disappear.
It's been fettled just a tad.
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It will be quicker than trying to sort out a fix to the hybrid one.
If it suddenly breaks, go back to the last thing that you did before it broke and start looking there
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facade wrote: Just swap the interior loom and dash/switches etc over so you end up with your old car complete, but the tinwork from the new one.
It will be quicker than trying to sort out a fix to the hybrid one.
What he said! This is what I did when I performed the same job on a Vauxhall Nova years ago. I swapped a pre facelift into a Facelift shell and just adapted the wiring for light plugs etc to suit. Easier than mixing two looms but I think less has changed on Jimnys, so you might not have much if anything to do.
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I changed over my steering coloum so it's all my original truck, so I can turn my original key in the barrel, which has the correct chip in it for the ecu and immo box, and all starts.
facade - I did have my original key in the pickup ring yeah, which I'd pulled away from the barrel to make sure it picked up my key not new key which was in the barrel being turned, but the pickup looked different and I couldn't swap over as the wiring was different on the loom. And the wiring for the immo box was different so I don't think it picked that up right either.
With the new loom in, entire coloum pick etc, it starts! Turns out it's a little more time consuming to put a loom in neatly than it is to pull out an old loom!
I'll pop some pics up on my progress thread once it's looking a little more together
Thanks for the help guys
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Tom1357 wrote:
I'll pop some pics up on my progress thread once it's looking a little more together
Look forward to that. Well done with the switch over.
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