Wiring Plans for TD5 90

I'll get the fire extinguisher...

I'll also run a mile from anything with as much electronics in it as a Td5. Much easier on my prehistoric carb powered V8...

-- Paul Everett repton at repton dot org

Don't bother... With a TD5, the computer will need waking up to tell it that it has new equipment fitted, such as a towbar, radio, elctric windows etc. Until it is told that equipment is fitted, the circuit is supposed to be dead.

If the computer detects something that it doesn't recognise, it can isolate the circuit to "protect" the vehicle and the computer.

This came from 2 different technicians who work in different garages, one a main dealer and one an independent specialist, but certainly does fit in with what I have heard about the TD5

-- Simon Isaacs

Peterborough 4x4 Club Chairman and Webmaster

3.5V8 100" Hybrid Suzuki SJ410 (Girlfirend) Series 3 88" Rolling chassis...what to do next Pug 106 (offroaded once!!)

I have a student working with me at the moment. He has sucessfully installed a TD5 engine into a 1988 90. He had very few problems in doing so and the task proved how many myths have been told about the electronics on the TD5 engine. The worst culprits for mis information are the Land Rover dealers themselves - their knowledge is pathetic.

If you want to do any mods to the electrics I suggest that you get hold of the relevant Rave CD. These have all the information that you require (although there are some errors on the wiring diagrams apparently). Without this he couldn't have completed the job.

TRH

I fail to be impressed by people who have no interest in modern technology :-)

BJ

There's a time and a place for electronics. The place is in a shiny machine room and not in something you intend to fill with mud and water ;)

While having now dunked Lara a number of times (ooer) I have yet to get wet feet. Am I doing something wrong.

Its a sad day when I start buying Land Rover Owner to improve my "technique" - That day was yesterday.

BJ

"Simon Isaacs" wrote:-

supposed to

There is probably some slight truth in this. I've been told (or read) that the electric windows in my Td5 are controlled by the computer, so extra switches can't be fitted, but a radio; this sounds like a statement designed to stop folk replacing the standard simple radio with a decent one.

I've used an external charger on my Td5's standard battery for months without problems.

I will be connecting leisure batteries to my Td5, with charging from the alternator and solar panels and a wind generator. How will the computer know that more batteries are connected and how will it disconnect them? How will it know about more security devices?

garages, one a

I bought a Land Rover YAE 100800 Tachometer from my local franchised dealer, who then told me that his service department could not fit it (they could before I placed the order!) and gave me the phone number of an auto-electrical company.

So much for so called fully trained LR technicians!

But I would also like some wiring diagrams.

Alan.