Engine Problem

[seagod]

Hi can anyone help ? I recently blew head gasket on my 1998 Galaxy 2.0 Aspen petrol. I have changed the whole engine over and now cannot get it to fire up . Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Any ideas please ?

[Goofygolfer]

Hi can anyone help ? I recently blew head gasket on my 1998 Galaxy 2.0 Aspen petrol. I have changed the whole engine over and now cannot get it to fire up . Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Any ideas please ?

 

did you change the ecu with the engine?

[seagod]

Hi can anyone help ? I recently blew head gasket on my 1998 Galaxy 2.0 Aspen petrol. I have changed the whole engine over and now cannot get it to fire up . Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Any ideas please ?

 

did you change the ecu with the engine?

No. I got agood auto sparky to put on a diagnostic machine and he recoded the ECU to work with the engine etc. Only charged me

[turk90210]

Think we need a bit more info/diagnostics here as it could be anything , is fuel pump priming,spark at plugs what is the alarm light doing ect ect

also when you say the whole engine please be a bit more precise peoples idea of whole engine differ. I have seen situations where people have got a replacement engine said to be from the same model vehicle(not talking Galaxy here by the way) swopped over the whole lump inc clutch and flywheel, only for the car not to start, various new parts were replaced still wouldn't go. After being scoped and diagnosed properly turned out there were different flywheels fitted on the car, as the old one wasn't used it turned out to be a larger air gap on the flywheel sensor which in turn wouldn't tell the ecu the engine was turning over so non starter, the old flywheel was put back on and first turn of key it started

Also something I can't get my head round is this recoding the ecu to the engine. I could be wrong but I am only aware of the key having to be coded to the ecu so if a straight engine swop it wouldn't have needed any sort of recode unless you changed the ECU aswell? and you paid

[seagod]

Think we need a bit more info/diagnostics here as it could be anything , is fuel pump priming,spark at plugs what is the alarm light doing ect ect

also when you say the whole engine please be a bit more precise peoples idea of whole engine differ. I have seen situations where people have got a replacement engine said to be from the same model vehicle(not talking Galaxy here by the way) swopped over the whole lump inc clutch and flywheel, only for the car not to start, various new parts were replaced still wouldn't go. After being scoped and diagnosed properly turned out there were different flywheels fitted on the car, as the old one wasn't used it turned out to be a larger air gap on the flywheel sensor which in turn wouldn't tell the ecu the engine was turning over so non starter, the old flywheel was put back on and first turn of key it started

Also something I can't get my head round is this recoding the ecu to the engine. I could be wrong but I am only aware of the key having to be coded to the ecu so if a straight engine swop it wouldn't have needed any sort of recode unless you changed the ECU aswell? and you paid

[cyborg]

I take that you have done some rudermentry checks.like checking a spare spark earthed on engine .A compression test.. .Pats alarm bypass . I would be Inclined to check cam sensor or bad earth .

good luck