any links to a service manual or wiring diagrams?

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Taz Pengra

Discussion Starter · Oct 7, 2016

My websearch has turned up very little usable info. The owners manual, an upfitter manual, and nothing else.

Is there a downloadable service manual, or at least a wiring diagram?

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Budsky

· #2 · Oct 7, 2016

Sure is- but it costs $180
- or you can do what I did- bought the Ford Service DVD on ebay for around $40. YMMV
Be aware the DVD's expire so you have to tweak your computer's date to use them..mine expired a year ago, not long after I bought it- still functional with the date change.

BTW if you want ALL Fords for the last 9 years you can get that DVD for the low price of $2600.

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rene12341

· #3 · Oct 7, 2016

Where can I find it for $180?

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Budsky

· #4 · Oct 7, 2016

http://www.helminc.com/helm/search_service_owner.asp?Style=helm&class_2=FRD

Taz Pengra

Discussion Starter · #5 · Oct 7, 2016

Really, really surprised that no one has "shared" the manual online. Maybe browse through a torrent website will make it show up.

Also, pretty simple matter to save the pages from the DVD in a separate file as PDF or JPEGs or something, so they don't "expire".

Budsky

· #6 · Oct 7, 2016

This website like many, I'm sure, will boot you right off for sharing a copyrighted manual.
Some I'm a member on will even kick you off for just discussing it...so beware.

Yeah I guess you could print off some of the manual- but there are links to click on in many of the pages to take you elsewhere in the manual.

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Taz Pengra

Discussion Starter · #7 · Oct 8, 2016

I was talking more about other websites, where people feel that information should be free.

I've websearched for wiring diagrams, which you would think would be prolific on the interwebs, but turned up nothing.

Budsky

· #8 · Oct 8, 2016

I agree free would be nice but I'm ok with a reasonable price....IMHO $180 for a DVD copy of something they produce anyway for the dealers isn't reasonable.....maybe $50 I'd be ok with.
I'm an AlldataDIY subscriber for several vehicles in my extended family- while their info is not quite as good as factory info it is close and very reasonably priced- especially as once you are a subscriber they have special offers.
Unfortunately they don't have the Transit yet.

Taz Pengra

Discussion Starter · #9 · Oct 9, 2016

Meanwhile, this forum is very helpful, as are the youtube "how to" videos people post.

rene12341

· #10 · Oct 10, 2016

Taz- Can you post details on how you are going about repositioning the wires going to the rear?

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Mobileempire

· #11 · Feb 3, 2019

Budsky said:
http://www.helminc.com/helm/search_service_owner.asp?Style=helm&class_2=FRD[/QUOTE

It told me no DVD available but gave the option of a electrical schematics for Transit t250 (paper version )for $86.
Idk
Right now I need to know what wire is neg and which is pos on my heater blower connector

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GapRunr

· #12 · Feb 3, 2019

Do you have a multimeter? Connect red to the yellow with green stripe and black to the purple. If the meter reads 12.x volts, the yellow with green is the positive. If the meter reads negative 12.x volts, the purple is the positive. If there isn't any current going to the connection, test for resistance from each wire to ground. The one with continuity is the ground.

Mobileempire

· #13 · Feb 3, 2019

GapRunr said:
Do you have a multimeter? Connect red to the yellow with green stripe and black to the purple. If the meter reads 12.x volts, the yellow with green is the positive. If the meter reads negative 12.x volts, the purple is the positive. If there isn't any current going to the connection, test for resistance from each wire to ground. The one with continuity is the ground.

Thanks a bunch , I was mainly trying to make sure that one of these wires was indeed a ground and not something unexpected , I was worried that they may have designed it with one positive wire and then grounded through the metal case and then the second wire who knows . when it comes to the van I am very careful not to mess with anything if i'm not 100% sure.
Trying to keep the van as original as possible with minimal modifications and as few holes as possible.
The house side is a different story.
Thanks again

sportcoupe

· #14 · Feb 3, 2019

Free wire diagrams up to 2017.

http://www.bbbind.com/free-tsb

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Budsky

· #15 · Feb 3, 2019

Mobileempire said:
Thanks a bunch , I was mainly trying to make sure that one of these wires was indeed a ground and not something unexpected , I was worried that they may have designed it with one positive wire and then grounded through the metal case and then the second wire who knows . when it comes to the van I am very careful not to mess with anything if i'm not 100% sure.
Trying to keep the van as original as possible with minimal modifications and as few holes as possible.
The house side is a different story.
Thanks again

As you saw I posted the info in the other thread where you asked about these wires.

Be aware the purple wire is not a "ground" per se- IOW I would not use it for anything other than it's intended purpose as it feeds to the HVAC module and no telling what might happen if you used it for a ground. Not sure what the HVAC module is exactly but it does tie to the BCM- which I imagine is expensive if damaged.

Mobileempire

· #16 · Feb 3, 2019

Budsky yea i know what you were talking about , kinda like this

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Batman

· #17 · Feb 3, 2019

sportcoupe said:
Free wire diagrams up to 2017.

http://www.bbbind.com/free-tsb

.

Thanks for the share on this, it looks like that will work pretty good. On the other hand I recently purchased a used wire diagram book on eBay for like $15, cant beat that price anywhere. It has all the body models in one book, which makes it really thick. Kind of overkill if you ask me but you never know what you might need.

Eiko

· #18 · Feb 3, 2019

Mobileempire said:
Budsky yea i know what you were talking about , kinda like this

Kinda. That's the very simple old school circuit for controlling the blower motor. @Budsky implies that resistor block circuit is now being controlled by a overly complicated HVAC module and BCM? Or it's no longer resistor blocks and just the HVAC module and the BCM?

Budsky

· #19 · Feb 3, 2019

Not sure exactly how the HVAC control module works but it is a $175 part with a core charge of $50 and a 26 pin connector.

Point being if one is looking for ground or negative that isn't the place I'd try to get it.

kc8flb

· #20 · Feb 4, 2019

Here are the wiring manuals:

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=transit+wiring+manual+-connect&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&_osacat=0&_odkw=transit+wiring+manual-connect+&LH_TitleDesc=0

You can get a legit copy of the complete Ford factory service manual for Helm. Its $180 for the DVD.

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