How to remove a Clifford Alarm

Richard,

Sounds like you have to reconnect the Ignition disable circuit that goes in to the brain. If my memory is correct this is the low tension wire going from the coil tah is cut. Otherwise, I can take a look to see how my Clifford's connected to the ignition disable circuit. I have a 380sec with a Clifford alarm.

Dinesh H

Thanks for the response Dinesh, I am not sure if I have a coil because it is a Diesel motor. But anycase if you willing to take a look at your Clifford alarm system to see how the ignition disable circuit works and report back. That would be Great!

Thanks again,

Richard

Sorry my bad for not looking closely at the "d" in 300d. According to the instructions on my alarm, the wire going from the ignition switch to the starter relay is cut and attached to the Green and Black wires from the alarm brain. My alarm is a Clifford Metrix 2 which was made after DEI bought Clifford. If you have an original Clifford, the clolour coding may be different. If your starter doesn't turn, this is your answer.

Dinesh

You're going to have to remove the Clifford starter-wire interrupt and reconnect the cut wires back together.

There are two ways to wire an alarm starter interrupt - "fail-safe" and "fail-secure". With a "fail-safe" method, if the alarm brain is disconnected or damaged, the starter will operate normally and start the car. With a "fail-secure" system, if the alarm is removed or damaged, the starter won't operate. As you've discovered, most of the older Clifford units were of the "fail-secure" variety.

As a quick check, examine the Bosch relay you mentioned. There should be terminals marked "87" and "87a". Only one of those two terminals should have a wire connected to it. Move the wire from one terminal to the other (either from 87 to 87a, or vice-versa). If the alarm starter-interrupt circuit is the only thing that's keeping your car from starting, that should solve the problem.

If that does allow your car to start, take the wire you just moved, and the wire going into terminal "30" of the relay, and connect them together permanently. You can then remove the relay and all of the other wires that are connected to it.

If you still haven't found the alarm brain, look at terminals 85 and

86 of the relay. One will go to either power or ground, and the other will lead to the alarm brain.

Hope this helps,

Thanks Scott,

I am examining the wire loom that I removed and the Bosch relay. You are correct in the terminal numbering. I have wires that are connected to terminals 30, 85, 86 amd 87a. 87 is left unattached. Now if I follow 85 and 86 on the wire loom, it leads me to the white connector that was not attached to anything as I mentioned earlier.

So what you are saying is that I should reinstall the wire loom, see if the car starts. Switch out "87" and "87a" terminals and try to start the car again? And then attach terminal "30" to the wires in "87". Right?

OK I will try it.

Incidently, When I first removed the wire loom, I think I've already tried to attach the wires from "87" (white/green stripe wire) and "30" (red/black striped wire) together and but still it did not start. (I attached them under the hood around the passanger firewall near a terminal block. The white/green striped wire was attached to a purple wire going to the firewall and the red/black striped wire was attached to a black wire connected to the terminal block on the inner part of the right fender)

What is your thoughts on that?

Thanks again,

Richard

I got the car started! Now I have to try to get the interior dome light to work again! But I can drive the beast again!

Thank you Dinesh and Scott for your info! It's been very helpful!