Engine cut out when hot
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Ok am having an intermittant problem that resulted in a trip home on a flatbed truck on Friday night - not fun/cheap. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
My engine cuts out when it gets v hot. Was stuck in stationary traffic for about 30/45 mins, fan kicked in as normal and cooled engine but was generally sat at 85-90 degrees for the whole time (which for my car is usually ok). After about half an hour at this temp the engine suddenly died. Restarted fine (1st time) but then died almost immediately (5-10 secs later). Tried again and same kept happening. The following day started the car up and ran fine so must be heat related.
Got the RAC man out who reckons it might be an electrical fault in the distributor cos he put a spark plug tester on one plug and the spark is the first to die (ie not a fuel pump problem). As the distributor is mounted on top of the engine could it be something in there thats going wrong when gets v hot - is there a sensor which could be intermittantly failing? Or ignition coil?
RAC man said voltage to the distributor was 1.5v - is this right?
Any ideas would be great.
PS I'm not great at electrics DIY so detailed instructions would be v handy!
Thank you.
My engine cuts out when it gets v hot. Was stuck in stationary traffic for about 30/45 mins, fan kicked in as normal and cooled engine but was generally sat at 85-90 degrees for the whole time (which for my car is usually ok). After about half an hour at this temp the engine suddenly died. Restarted fine (1st time) but then died almost immediately (5-10 secs later). Tried again and same kept happening. The following day started the car up and ran fine so must be heat related.
Got the RAC man out who reckons it might be an electrical fault in the distributor cos he put a spark plug tester on one plug and the spark is the first to die (ie not a fuel pump problem). As the distributor is mounted on top of the engine could it be something in there thats going wrong when gets v hot - is there a sensor which could be intermittantly failing? Or ignition coil?
RAC man said voltage to the distributor was 1.5v - is this right?
Any ideas would be great.
PS I'm not great at electrics DIY so detailed instructions would be v handy!
Thank you.
Sounds very much like the Ignition Amplifier to me! See my previous post - I had exactly the same problem:
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
More info on parts and fitting here:
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
Thanks for this. From reading these other posts it does indeed seem like its a fairly common thing so will definately try this.
The link you gave me is for the 3 pin one. Mine is a '99 Chim 500 (car is currently locked away in a garage elsewhere at the mo so can't inspect), do you think the 3 pin is the one i need or there was some chat about the other variety of the 2 pin version? And the location seems to vary on age of cars, is it really that easy to fit?
Cheers.
The link you gave me is for the 3 pin one. Mine is a '99 Chim 500 (car is currently locked away in a garage elsewhere at the mo so can't inspect), do you think the 3 pin is the one i need or there was some chat about the other variety of the 2 pin version? And the location seems to vary on age of cars, is it really that easy to fit?
Cheers.
Indicate you want the 3 pin http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CLASSIC-MINI-IGNITION-MODULE...
Thanks v much.
I ordered the part from britishparts.co.uk but then had the order voided the following day - DO NOT ORDER FROM THESE GUYS - they are complete ar**s; rude, unnecessarily agressive and no paying customer should be rejected just on the fact that the up-himself salesman "doesn't want to process the sale if the part is going on a TVR"!
Going to buy original Lucas or Trev part, all roughly the same price on this one - steer clear of britishparts.
I ordered the part from britishparts.co.uk but then had the order voided the following day - DO NOT ORDER FROM THESE GUYS - they are complete ar**s; rude, unnecessarily agressive and no paying customer should be rejected just on the fact that the up-himself salesman "doesn't want to process the sale if the part is going on a TVR"!
Going to buy original Lucas or Trev part, all roughly the same price on this one - steer clear of britishparts.
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