Tamora engine keeps flooding - I think

[theHotHead]

Hi all, apologies if this has come up before - the search function isn't working at the moment.

Now and then, maybe once a month, the car won't start. Sometimes it will start by me starting the car with the throttle fully open (I was told by an AA guy who got my car started previously that starting the car with the throttle fully open makes the car use very little fuel when starting - solves flooded engine problems) but other times it won't. Sometimes I have to leave it a day or 2 then it starts - when I try by starting with the throttle fully open. When all else fails I can always start it by pushing it but I need people to give me a hand with that.

Its a bit annoying an worrying - leaving me potentially stranded at times. I know its not battery related, the battery charge seems fine.

Any ideas why the engine would keep flooding ?

Cheers.

[madbadger]

Doesn't that use too many revs on a cold engine?

[theHotHead]

Not if you catch it quickly enough. When it starts I take my foot off the throttle very quickly, the revs hit maybe 3K maximum for a split second, then it idles away at low revs just fine.

[Mattt]

I've heard the starting on WOT thing before, but assumed it was for modern ECUs not what we have.

[RedSpike66]

The typical starting procedure is 'feet off' - let the ecu do all the work, and only use the throttle if it's struggling to idle.

I've suffered from this problem recently tho, and it can happen most often if you start the car for pehaps just 20/30 secs, just to move it, and then stop it, and leave it for an hour or two, or overnight. Fuel sits in the cylinders which never got hot enough and breaks the compression provided by the piston rings. When trying to start the car, WOT tells the ECU to stop supplying fuel as it knows it hasn't started, so turning it over for a few mins on WOT clears the cylinders. You can then turn the ignition off, back on again, and start it with WOT - AA man told me and showed me all that the other week.

And a right load of sh*te comes out the exhaust when if catches !

[Jim_w]

Might be worth checking your sensors - suggest hook up the laptop software if you have access if you don't I think you can download it off graham v's site. Had a similar intermittent fault it turned out to be a knackered sensor (can't remember which).

Cheers Jim

[TVRWazzock]

theHotHead said:

Hi all, apologies if this has come up before - the search function isn't working at the moment.

Now and then, maybe once a month, the car won't start. Sometimes it will start by me starting the car with the throttle fully open (I was told by an AA guy who got my car started previously that starting the car with the throttle fully open makes the car use very little fuel when starting - solves flooded engine problems) but other times it won't. Sometimes I have to leave it a day or 2 then it starts - when I try by starting with the throttle fully open. When all else fails I can always start it by pushing it but I need people to give me a hand with that.

Its a bit annoying an worrying - leaving me potentially stranded at times. I know its not battery related, the battery charge seems fine.

Any ideas why the engine would keep flooding ?

Cheers.

DITTO

This happened to me last Sunday and left me stranded at the petrol station in chippenham. I filled up with super unleaded and started the Tam, it spluttered into life then died and I couldn't get it started again. Had to call the AA out in to give me a jump start on the Battery. I will book the Tam in with Colin at TVRSSW.

Also I'll get the battery live terminal point fitted to the side of the engine bay aswell as bringing the 100amp fuse out from under the airbox and mounting that on the engine bay side, so I can get to these points easily. It's rather awkward to get at the battery terminals inside the front wheel well.

This is the second time this has happened in the last two months .

[Mattt]

Can you not jump off of the Anderson connector?

[scotty_d]

I know on a CERB mbe ecu that full throttle when cranking over cuts fuel right back to the injectors and does not flood it. Might be why it was working with your TAM.

[theHotHead]

Hmmm .... what are the reasons the engine would keep flooding ?