Crosflow powered 7 - won't start
Discussion
Eric,
You might remember being on Blatchat about eleven or twelve years ago, saying that you loved your crossflow but that I should get a K-series. I did, and still have it over ten years later. Of course, it's had the dreaded click (solenoid refurb cured that) and HGF, but it's still going strong and starts on the button.
Good luck with yours.
Alan
You might remember being on Blatchat about eleven or twelve years ago, saying that you loved your crossflow but that I should get a K-series. I did, and still have it over ten years later. Of course, it's had the dreaded click (solenoid refurb cured that) and HGF, but it's still going strong and starts on the button.
Good luck with yours.
Alan
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.
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.
The fuel pump problem would probably not been an issue until the system drained down over the lay up period. Mechanical fuel pumps often struggle to prime completely empty carbs at cranking speeds, this being why electric pumps are more commonly used with side draft carbs, particularly on cars used infrequently.
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