I am in Kent, everything on car is standard as had it from new. Apart from the water leaks and the collapsed front shock this is the first real problem, you know what I mean.

I have followed your idea and checked the loom connectors by the battery for corrosion and they were OK, but I thought I might as well check the rest in the engine bay connectors while I was at it. No corrosion found until I got to the ECU connectors, the small one was ok but the large one had a brown rusty sludge in the bottom of it and the socket connector was well caked.

I have cleaned all the sludge out from around the pins with electrical switch cleaner and had a go at cleaning the wired socket and got a fare amount of gunge out of it, but I still think there is enough in there to cause some tracking. The socket looks like it might come apart and seems to have 2 white sliders, 1 either side of the pin receivers that look like they may come out.

Anyone taken one of these connectors apart? If not any other ideas for cleaning them up or can you replace them?

Many Thanks

Edited 22 May, 201016 yr by DISC BRAKES

if it's just at the ecu end it's easy enough to replace that whole section of loom, it just detaches from the dash loom up next to the battery via 2 connectors....

i wouldn't bother taking apart the ecu plug if i were you, you need a special tool to extract the pins from the connector block, and you will end up busting the terminals if you try to pull them out without the tool

Do you think its worth getting a new one or do you think it might be ok to use one from a breakers? If the latter does it have to be an exact match of car or are there any other models that use the same cables? That might sound daft but I have only been under this felicia bonnet.

Thanks

the MPI engine loom is the same on all the MPI cars, takes a few minutes to remove completly.

how does the ecu look? has it attacked the pins at all.. i have a mate who works for ford and they use a strange grease that they fill ecu plugs up with to kill corrosion and give a better contact.

as tom says i wouldn't open the multi plug up as its very easy to break the contacts..

i was half right then with water ingress just in the wrong place :no:

for the help so far.

Locked myself out of the site yesterday trying to change email address.

I am not having a lot of luck trying to track down an MPI engine loom, so far only found ones with connectors missing or damage. Anyone recommend any good sources.

Thanks

how many do you want? i have plenty here i could send

That would be great

Have sent you email via your member page to request details. Hope this was right thing to do. If not let, me know.

Thanks again

replied thanks mate