Member Since: 15 Jul 2011
Location: Hants
Posts: 47
Tips for getting the CJB back in?
Hello,
After a break from owning a disco3 Ive recently picked up a 2005 hse. A few jobs need doing which I am working through now.
Just fixed a leak in the passenger footwell (grommet in wing for the sunroof drain tube had perished), but I am struggling to get the CJB back in.
I removed the lower glovebox and kick plate and everything disconnected and dropped out ok. I am struggling to reconnect the rear plugs. Anyone have any tips for getting them back in??
Thanks
Colin
4th Jan 2015 12:30 pm
robbo770
Member Since: 29 Jan 2013
Location: Aberdeenshire
Posts: 2294
Employ a technical child for the day to get it back in, always amazes me why LR put things in totally stupid places when not only is it the fuses holder but the main car electrical gremlins home👀👀 FFRR SC 4.2
Member Since: 25 Aug 2012
Location: surrey
Posts: 257
The multi plugs are colour coded with the fronts red plugs to (Port) - right and green plugs to (starboard) - left. The bottom one is blue. From memory the rear plugs are also coloured coded (red and green I think) and it was almost possible to to it wrong. Putting the CJB back in was a very tight fit and it will only go in properly if all the plugs are in the right sockets and are clamped right home. Perseverance will get you there.
4th Jan 2015 12:47 pm
therealboss
Member Since: 21 Mar 2014
Location: Co Carlow
Posts: 1958
+1 for Perseverance, it's a pig to get back but perseverance will win the day.Dale
Member Since: 23 Dec 2012
Location: birmingham
Posts: 1088
Prop u self up side down back in foot well head under glove box seems to work easier for some reason
I to take cjb out as water had got on it and needed cleaning ,works fine now
4th Jan 2015 1:57 pm
d3_col
Member Since: 15 Jul 2011
Location: Hants
Posts: 47
Clearly I wasn't swearing loudly enough! One set of knuckles later they are all back in. Completely agree on the design - whoever signed that off as a reasonable location should be fired!
I did remove the relays (I assume they are relays )from the bottom right hand corner of the CJB to provide a few mm extra room. Not sure if it was that or the expletives that got me over the line!
Thanks all for the advice - on to the more enjoyable task of fitting the BAS egr blankink kit
Cheers
Colin
4th Jan 2015 2:37 pm
garfield2
Member Since: 24 Jul 2008
Location: morley, leeds
Posts: 311
Downhiller wrote:
The multi plugs are colour coded with the fronts red plugs to (Port) - right and green plugs to (starboard) - left. The bottom one is blue. From memory the rear plugs are also coloured coded (red and green I think) and it was almost possible to to it wrong. Putting the CJB back in was a very tight fit and it will only go in properly if all the plugs are in the right sockets and are clamped right home. Perseverance will get you there.
Oops, methinks it's port, left (red) and starboard right (green) as in short word and short spelling on left and longer spelling for right or for those of us old enough to remember the great liners POSH, Port out starboard home
Regards
Martin
4th Jan 2015 2:53 pm
LRV DAV
Member Since: 21 Mar 2017
Location: Ayrshire
Posts: 266
Hi Guys,
Removed my cjb but failed miserable thing to refit it. been at it for 3 weeks now on and off. How the hell do you refit it. i can't get the rear plugs back in. Who the hell in Landrover designed this?
Asking Disco Mikey for help.
9th Sep 2018 8:07 pm
vanpeebles
Member Since: 20 Mar 2018
Location: North East
Posts: 150
Did you uncross or swap the cables/plugs between each other? I noticed that, if you look up at where the cables run down, if you get them in the wrong order, then there is not quite enough free cable, and the rear plugs wouldn't clamp up. I had to try shuffling the order around of the cables.
10th Sep 2018 8:05 am
Erea
Member Since: 19 Mar 2012
Location: Munster
Posts: 1509
I had been going to Retrofit Adaptive lights to my D3 until I read about the CJB being a nightmare to plug back in . On one post from memory it was something like “hard enough to make a Nun curse!!”
Hope you get sorted soon.
10th Sep 2018 1:42 pm
lynalldiscovery
Member Since: 22 Dec 2009
Location: Maidstone
Posts: 7274
garfield2 wrote:
Downhiller wrote:
The multi plugs are colour coded with the fronts red plugs to (Port) - right and green plugs to (starboard) - left. The bottom one is blue. From memory the rear plugs are also coloured coded (red and green I think) and it was almost possible to to it wrong. Putting the CJB back in was a very tight fit and it will only go in properly if all the plugs are in the right sockets and are clamped right home. Perseverance will get you there.
Oops, methinks it's port, left (red) and starboard right (green) as in short word and short spelling on left and longer spelling for right or for those of us old enough to remember the great liners POSH, Port out starboard home
Regards
Martin
Ha just thought damn Ive been doing it wrong all these years
10th Sep 2018 2:35 pm
snoz78
Member Since: 14 Jul 2018
Location: northwest
Posts: 5
I fixed my sunroof drain grommet a few weeks ago and removing the bottom right relays made putting the cjb back a little less of a struggle.
10th Sep 2018 2:47 pm
ANother
Member Since: 28 Jul 2018
Location: None
Posts: 179
Did mine twice today once yesterday brown plug on the back came out on the first two occasions.
Found the best way to get the rears in was to turn the CJB 90degrees plug in the back plugs and turn it round Beforedoing this I got the blue plug and bottom green plug out of the way pushed the two top plugs up out of the way. once the rear plugs were in I had to move the CJB down bit so the bottom relays cleared the fixing stud. Before you fix it in place check the rear plugs are still in
Hope this helps
Clive
12th Sep 2018 12:17 am
trondman
Member Since: 29 Oct 2019
Location: norvegen
Posts: 4
thanks, tip about removing the relays did it for me, just enough space to flip down the lock.
17th Dec 2020 2:25 pm
CongoBoy
Member Since: 05 Mar 2019
Location: Wiltshire
Posts: 525
lynalldiscovery wrote:
garfield2 wrote:
Downhiller wrote:
The multi plugs are colour coded with the fronts red plugs to (Port) - right and green plugs to (starboard) - left. The bottom one is blue. From memory the rear plugs are also coloured coded (red and green I think) and it was almost possible to to it wrong. Putting the CJB back in was a very tight fit and it will only go in properly if all the plugs are in the right sockets and are clamped right home. Perseverance will get you there.
Oops, methinks it's port, left (red) and starboard right (green) as in short word and short spelling on left and longer spelling for right or for those of us old enough to remember the great liners POSH, Port out starboard home
Regards
Martin
Ha just thought damn Ive been doing it wrong all these years
I always remember it as "There's not a lot of port left in the bottle and port being red in colour!!"
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