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MossRestoration MossRestoration is offline
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Join Date: Aug 2025
Location: Brisbane, Australia
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Thanks for all the responses everyone.

I had already completely exhausted the Clarks Garage troubleshooting before coming here.

DME Relay has been completely bypassed along with the rest of the cars loom during the later tests.

Although I could have replaced all the basic components in the DME, it wouldn't have worked out financially well for the customer for me to do so. I managed to find a local company who have now reconditioned the DME. (multiple faults found amongst it, many cracked solder joints, and a few blown components) Back in the car and initially still with the bypass loom in place I finally, finally had spark. It didn't however sound like the injectors were firing, so moved onto that. Luckily just a quick removal and clean and some manual firing managed to clear them up enough to work on their own and now the car is running.

Impressively given how many things were wrong with the car and the near 20 years it's been in a non-running condition left to waste away, it actually is now running quite well. Next to no stumble, power steering, aircon, alternator all working. Auto shifting well. No vacuum or fuel leaks. Not even any smoke.

Anyway, its now back off to the customer for him to continue on the restoration journey. Was just with me to tackle the big hurdles like rust repair and getting it running.
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