robert green Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 I have just been towed on to the ferry at Portsmouth as my vecta has packed up. Does anyone know how to bypass it? Robert Green Zetec with Clams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbird Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 there is a load of stuff in techtalk, starting point here general opinion is its a faff but can be removed relatively easily sorry cant help much more, think Alextangent has idiot guide Tim Didn't intend to suggest your are an idiot by the way 😬 good luck Edited by - tbird on 7 Jul 2010 23:26:44 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert green Posted July 7, 2010 Author Share Posted July 7, 2010 The light goes green but ignition light will not come on when you turn the key. Is there anything esle I should check first before trying to cut it out, or bypass it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbird Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 couldn't be as simple as a poor connection in ignition switch cct could it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECR Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 My sympathy Robert It can be removed by the side of the road by an unskilled electrician (believe me, I'm one ...). Find the Vecta unit under the dash (a black plastic tube 30 (?)mm in dia with many black wires exiting it) Unpick your loom and you will find most of these wires go nowhere. Carefully disconnect the wires that are actually joined to your loom, find the correspondingly coloured wire that it was previously joined to, and reconnect it. There aren't that many. Disconnect your battery before you start. Very best of luck (You CAN do it ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen Payne Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 Some of the Vectra units were also square, not round, again with lots of black wires. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jingars Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 In October 2007 Alex McDonald produced a document on Vecta removal, which he kindly provided to me. I haven't got round to removing mine so I haven't validated his procedure. It is a 60Kb PDF, so if you can receive mail then I could mail you a copy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dickie Normuss Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 It's actually very simple to remove as I did mine a few years ago so you should be OK with some rudimentary tools. The one to the fuel pump might be tricky as mine was spliced in under the tunnel top just behind the gear lever. VX HPC - Loud and proud here Adding power makes you faster on the straights. Subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert green Posted July 12, 2010 Author Share Posted July 12, 2010 Thank you so much for all of the replies! Fortunately, I had to leave the car in the ferry hold over night and came to it fresh in the morning (after about an hours sleep!). It turned out that a poor connection to the battery was the culprrit, not the vecta - and easily fixed. The strange thing was it had been fine all day, and during the wait for the ferry. It just gave up as we were due to load! None the less, I think I will remove the vecta as it is just another possible fault that can be removed. If you could blat mail me the pdf Jingars, that would great. Thanks again to all who replied. It is nice to know that you are not alone when something like this happens! Great Classic Le Mans by the way. Very hot, but the big old Bentleys sliding around arnarge corner were worth the trip on their own! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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