Still havein reverse problems

[Steve GS]

A couple of pictures have gone in the wrong place I don't know why.

 

[BL330]

Hi Steve,

Great photos and I must compliment you on your interior colour combo. I have the same, although with tech cloth inserts and red piping.
As an aside I was visiting the Italian Embassy this week for work, and found out our interior colour 'Avorio' means 'Ivory' in Italian.
I thought it was Italian for "bloody hard to keep clean".

I sure there was mention on the forum of someone who sells the metal fork, but made of stronger stuff.
I expect I will find the same as you as I have 110,000 km on mine now or 66,000 mile.

Good luck,

Bruce

 

[Evo Cymru]

Thanks for posting this Steve, I'm sure it will be useful to others in the future. Sorry I can't offer much help or advice - electrics are another world to me (hydraulics are proving so too!) - but I hope you can fix this relatively easily!

Olly

 

[Steve GS]

Hi Steve,

Great photos and I must compliment you on your interior colour combo. I have the same, although with tech cloth inserts and red piping.
As an aside I was visiting the Italian Embassy this week for work, and found out our interior colour 'Avorio' means 'Ivory' in Italian.
I thought it was Italian for "bloody hard to keep clean".

I sure there was mention on the forum of someone who sells the metal fork, but made of stronger stuff.
I expect I will find the same as you as I have 110,000 km on mine now or 66,000 mile.

Good luck,

Bruce

Thanks for compliment and the info on the couler. And yes I can get the fork leaver for around £60. But that's not all that is wrong with this switch will find out more the weekend.

 

[Steve GS]

Thanks for posting this Steve, I'm sure it will be useful to others in the future. Sorry I can't offer much help or advice - electrics are another world to me (hydraulics are proving so too!) - but I hope you can fix this relatively easily!

Olly

Thanx Olly maseratis are another world but learning.

 

[safrane]

Is there no Alfa Seleaspeed equivalent part?

 

[Zep]

I don't think so. The sillyspeed had a big gear lever that could also be used to shift up and down the gears.


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[Fair2]

Bruce, much appreciated, a great DYI post with pictures.
Robert F

 

[Steve GS]

Just like to add a picture of the micro switch Im sure I read these can be adjusted would like to know how if so. Also a picture of cables going in. There seems to be two with 12v going in out the four cables. Was to fiddley to operate reverse switch hold tester at same time to find out where the power returns from. Also not enough day light hours
Cables from car going to switch

Couldn't seem to prise the circuit board away felt like it was going to break.

 

[safrane]

Does this help?

http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/111383103307?nav=SEARCH

 

[CatmanV2]

That's for manual cars

C

 

[Steve GS]

Does this help?

http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/111383103307?nav=SEARCH

Thanks all the same but this is for a manual gear box.

 

[Steve GS]

If I can get at the micro switches then I might be able to sorce some new ones. Just feels like I'm going to break the circuit board if I try to remove it.

 

[Steve GS]

I'd like to add when foot on break it doesn't seem to send any other power to the switch. Does anyone now if there's another control point where this goes to to then activate reverse gear and of course the mirrors repositioning

 

[Zep]

I think this is all done in the ecu. If you have two 12v feeds to the plug, the other two wires will feed 12v back to the gearbox ecu to tell it to select either 1st or reverse. Have you tried using a jumper wire on the plug to see if you can select a gear without using the switch itself? That would at least rule out a broken wire elsewhere.


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[Steve GS]

I think this is all done in the ecu. If you have two 12v feeds to the plug, the other two wires will feed 12v back to the gearbox ecu to tell it to select either 1st or reverse. Have you tried using a jumper wire on the plug to see if you can select a gear without using the switch itself? That would at least rule out a broken wire elsewhere.


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I have thought about this but was worried about causing any other problems

 

[Zep]

As long as you treat it like a switch and only connect it for a few seconds I'm sure it would be fine, after all it is only mimicking what the switch would do...


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[Steve GS]

As long as you treat it like a switch and only connect it for a few seconds I'm sure it would be fine, after all it is only mimicking what the switch would do...


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If this is the case then I'm sure a switch can be rebuilt and not costing £500 + something I will look into.

 

[Zep]

I would have thought so, hopefully it will just be a dodgy connection and you won't need a new switch at all!


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[CatmanV2]

Simplest to do it on a bench using ohmeter to test for continuity. Work out what the switch does when you trigger it.

C