obd

hi guys,can anybody tell me what the red grey wire is for,messing about trying to get eas kicker to work,this wire has now come loose,now iam not even gettin the blue light to come on,eas kicker,cheers pat

It goes to pin 3 of the air suspension delay timer (The EAS relay under the passenger seat. I presume it's used for turning the relay on and off from whatever diagnostics you're using?

If your talking about the OBD socket...it goes to Pin 1.

Sorry - should have said that

cheers for the reply's guys,so the grey red wire is for the eas,now that it has came loose,it will be a pain trying to fix it,would it be better to get another obd from the scrappies,could i then rejoin all the wires for the obd,cheers pat

Yes it goes to the EAS timer. The pin should push back in but if it looks dodgy get another socket and make sure you cut the wires as long as you can when you remove it at the scrappies.
The pins used for EAS diagnostics on the OBD socket are a pain at the best of times, they have to be perfectly clean and make good contact with the plug otherwise all you get is communication problems. Never have those prolems with other systems on the P38..only EAS.:behindsofa:

hi irishrover,its actually the wire that has came out,i will get new one from the scrappies,bet you that was why icould never get the eas kicker to work,kept giving me communication problems,pat

Any chance you can remove the pin and solder the wire on ???

What on earth are you putting my (now your) poor little EAS Kicker lite through Pat :doh:

Any other time would be bad enough, but over the last few weeks, My production team (well just the one chap at the moment) has not been able to keep up with demand, and so has been falling behind, and as such i have been going into production myself to build stuff with my own fair hand, to help out until we can at least recruit another assistant.

So, guess what ? undoubtedly the EAS Kicker Lite you now have in your hand, is very likely one of my very own personal creations, the fruits of my very own sweat and toil if you like.

Having been lovingly and caringly constructed, i will have been there as it passed it's primary inspections and had me watch it grow up and receive it's full programming. I will of course, have shared in the proud moment of it finally graduating past its extensive and exhausting testing and proudly get it's warranty (void if removed) seals of approval before joining and celebrating with it's brothers on the stock shelf. What a proud moment.

Having now flown the nest into the big wide world, and undoubtedly for pastures greener, I can but only hope that like its brothers, it ultimately finds a decent and worthy P38 OBDII socket to mate with, one that has an ample and clean ground on pins 4 and 5 and 12V supply for it on pin 16. I also hope it has clean lines of communication to and from the EAS ECU over the RX and TX connections it needs to do it's job, 11 and 12.
But ultimately, i hope my little EAS Kicker is able to Turn on your EAS ECU at just the right moment via Pin 1, hopefully resulting in a little Green LED activity that will make you every bit as pleased and proud as me.

Hi Colin...bet you have blisters and your hands smell of Swarfega after all this manual work...hope you didn't get your suit dirty !!:hysterically_laughi:violin:
Did you read my post on the BBS forum regarding "Test Rig" build advice ??
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irishrover,not very good at the soldering lark,in fact never done it before,i dont think the obd socket is the place to learn,hi colin,iam going to get this kicker to work at some time hopefully,and at no time did i think your stuff was not up to scratch,by the way there is nothing like a bit of graft now and again colin,lol aint that right irishrover.pat

Ha Ha, Colin, good to know you're still able to do it and even better that you care about the good homes they find

Pulled out my neglected remaining Kicker for the classic today for the first time in over a year and got that warm fuzzy feeling when it fired up first time to console the Classic that, yes it was just the bags that are completely knackered and so not to worry its little ECU self about all the other things that damp sea air can do to elctronics and rubber just yet. In fact the RRC is behaving itself a damn sight better than the P38 which has developed several little leaks around the (replaced) o-rings to go with the occasionally sticking right rear valve.

Of course the P38 had to fault out when the wife had the car for the first time in months last week (ironically enough I had two fully(ish) functioning Rangies outside the door when her Prius threw a hissy fit (F**king expenive hissy fit - cost €500 bloody euro to find the €70 relay that had blown - its not just LR dealers that love to charge) and she took the P38 for a few days. It came very close to having the P38 tow the Prius to the garage - I would have taken a picture for posterity if it had come to pass. The irony of this is that I've often said that it was the cast iron reliability of the Toyota that allowed me the luxury of owning the P38 since at least I knew I'd be able to get to work in the Prius when the P38 let me down, which it actually never has . I've broken it a few times but its never actually left me stranded.

Aww
You guys

I Just wanted you all to know that i am not yet adverse to mopping out the bogs when its my turn, quite yet

I really am still quite very hands on, and proud of it

Bet Bill Gates ain't mopped out the loos at Microsoft in a while

Although i have to confess, i have not made my own coffee in a while, thank god, as it probably tastes awful.


Funny, you should mention alternate transport SpudH
for some time, me and the missus ran near identical white P38's and i still have mine, but after work, we would of course stop off at the same restaurant / bar and park up side by side, so often eliciting comments as to
why we had arrived in such identical cars.

To which we formed a standardized reply.

Well when one does not start or gives us any trouble, we use the other to tow it to the workshop.

Surely only a joke that a only a P38 owner would appreciate.