Crosflow powered 7 - won't start

[Eric Mc]

Thanks.

I still love mine but I don't drive it enough. Probably part of the reason for its current troubles.

[Eric Mc]

Finally sorted. Massive thanks to Mike and his friend who came around last night and spent over three hours going through all the various options to get to the bottom of the - as it turned out - multiple issues.

Here is a list of what was found -

Old distributor cap needed replacing (that was spotted a few weeks ago and the cap was purchased and fitted (sort of) by me

High tension lead from coil to distributor needed replacing because of ill fitting contact at distributor end

It was the above two issues that had caused a lack of spark at the spark plugs. Once the offending items were replaced, the spark plugs started sparking - but the engine still didn't want to fire.

This now looked like there was a fuel problem. Fuel pump (mechanical) was removed and it was spotted that one of the hoses had perished and split. As a result, the pump was sucking air rather than petrol - and no petrol was getting to the carbs.

Fuel hose was replaced and within minutes - she fired up.

A little bit of lumpy running was sorted by adjusting the floats in the carbs.

So - it's running again.

I can't tell you how grateful I am to Mike and his mate (Dave?) for taking the time and effort to help me on this.

Shows how great PH can be - despite all the nonsense that appear here sometimes.

[Eric Mc]

I love my Crossflow. The engine was an is fine. It's the sticky on bits that were playing up.

[Eric Mc]

They were obviously building up and the three month lay off over winter caused them to all come together at roughly the same time.

[Eric Mc]

I'll bear that in mind and make sure I fire her up more frequently over the winter period.