Hard to believe I'm six months into the build and it's Easter already. I was originally thinking it would be finished by now but its not even on its wheels yet!
Anyway, left it last week with cross threaded nuts in the ABS unit. The unit was removed and a replacement ordered. It would seem to be very likely if not absolutely certain that the ECU part is coded to the car and a different one would need to be coded by Ford. The solution to this is to swap the old ECU onto the new pump.
Here is the unit on the bench..
Just need to undo this screw..
and this screw..
and it comes apart like this.. (need to keep it fairly straight until its compoletely off as well)
Behind the pump part in the photo is an electric motor that runs the pump. You dont really need to disturb this!
Next job is to remake the pipes from the master cylinder to the unit..
I used 5/16" 8mm tubing from B&Q and a friends flanging tool. The new ABS unit came with the nuts in place so I used those to replace the cross threaded ones.
and here are the new pipes all ready for installation. Shown here with the old ones with the yellow tape holding them together where they were cut to remove the master cylinder nuts.
Everything is now back on the car and good to go for bleeding the system.
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