sorry guys I think I am behind with posting on the UK side, and I have posted a few times on ML. Looks like there's a slight hiccup in the Pot operation. I put the new Pots in.
I took it over for the self learn with Steve Oldford from Aston Martin of New England. Before I did so though I did start the car and try the gears. It would go into reverse, 1st and 2nd. But the indicator light was still blinking with the CC light on.
I arrived he hooked the car up, cleared the codes, and would you believe it, it refused to self learn. It stayed in 6th gear on the indicator but it was actually in neutral. He kept telling it to go to neutral and he was trying to toggle the gears but it wouldn't toggle.....it was throwing the same codes. [For Maserati reference it's P1741-and P1742.] Now I am a bit upset about the operation. I couldn't run the car over because my truck with 35" tires was attached to the trailer it was on, it would have taken to long to unhook it, push it down the ramps, run it over and leave. By then I would have used my better judgment. So here's the thing. Steve stood out there for about 30-45 min straight doing it over and over again. He cleared the codes, rebooted the Leo system. Nada. Same codes thrown but here's the thing they were still sending data. My hypothesis is this. I don't think they were installed correctly or maybe there's a more serious issue keeping the Pots from turning correctly...........
Here's the second post I did on ML as well because I had the car on the car hauler I decided to just use it as a pit to climb under the car and take it back apart last night.......
...........here is the housing of the potentiometers with the actuator rod that runs into it. You will notice there is only a quarter piece cut out of the actuator rod, there is only one place the armatures can sit. I wiped all the grease away so that you can actually see what I saw beforehand.
Now in order to seat the base plate with the pots correctly, you have to sit the base plate/pots in lower and slide them up to the top part of the quarter cut out. If you try to just sit the base plate and pots on top of the housing the armatures will contact the top edge and will not seat correctly. The armatures are spring loaded, so as you slide the base plate up from the bottom the tabs on the armatures contact the top quarter cut out of the actuator rod, and push the armatures down. There are metal dowels on the base plate diagonal from each other so as soon as you preload the Pots by sliding the base plate up the dowels can push down into the holes, and you can hold the base plate in place with one hand putting the screws in with the other. Now here is the kick in the seat of the pants for me. I obviously did all of this but when I opened up the housing again to see why the Pot codes were still being thrown, the larger armature had been broken off, and was resting in the bottom of the housing in the grease. So my brand new Pots now look like this:
Okay so now I am trying to figure out. Did I miss something? Did I squeeze the armature by accident and didn't know it? I don't think so. My concern is when I attempted to turn the actuator rod it didn't move. I could still push it from side to side but when I attempted to mimic what I thought the pots would be doing .....no dice........
Conaero.......I hate to do this to you but I think I am going to need the Pot with the long armature on it. I am going to need to figure out either how to take it apart to put the long armature on the new pot to be able to use it, or splice the wiring harness and use the old Pot with the long armature already on it. I believe it was still good it was the small armature that was having issues I believe. That or the actuator rod is actually stuck from moving the way it is supposed to which in turn made the Pot codes come up in the first place. This would explain also how it broke the new armature off the Pot as well. I will be under the car most of the day. I have to figure out what the issue is before I ruin another set of almost $1000 pots. Sorry I didn't keep you guys updated as all the thing were unfolding.