a strange one, help
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right left work as normal today and the car ran very rough, on the motorway i held down the clutch to listen to engine and it stalled! restarted and carried on to junction, stalled again so i pulled over, tried to restart it and it went first time and the roughness had all but gone!
so finished my my ride home and checked under the bonnet even though i didnt have a clue what i was looking for!
didnt see anything so started her up to put her away and she sounded great again. so my question is if anyone can help is what the hell happened there then
ps dont know if its important but the battery gauge had a higher reading than normal 15plus (4ltr 92)
so finished my my ride home and checked under the bonnet even though i didnt have a clue what i was looking for! didnt see anything so started her up to put her away and she sounded great again. so my question is if anyone can help is what the hell happened there then
ps dont know if its important but the battery gauge had a higher reading than normal 15plus (4ltr 92)
Does that car 'kangaroo' as part of it's rough running... If so you could check that the vacuum advance hasn't come loose. I had a problem that sounded very similar to this some time ago.
The vacuum advance lives by the distributer cap and looks a bit like a flying saucer. You could also check a thin pipe that runs between the vacuum advance and the plenum to see if it has come adrift or is blocked...
Hope this helps
Cheers
DC
The vacuum advance lives by the distributer cap and looks a bit like a flying saucer. You could also check a thin pipe that runs between the vacuum advance and the plenum to see if it has come adrift or is blocked...
Hope this helps
Cheers
DC
try checking that the earth connections to both of the fuel injector banks are not loose. i had similar problem - rough running, difficult restart and then all of a sudden everything was fine when the connections touched again - i was running on one bank of injectors sometimes. no idea where the connections are, Tower View fixed mine - Steve Heath, could you help out on their loaction?
Check earths and the alternator diode thing Steve reffered to...I doubt if the problem would fix itself!
If it was wet when the problem occurred, you should check that there are no holes or splits in the large air intake hose (N/S of engine compartment) at the front of the engine bay. I have heard of water getting its way in there...
Unless this type of problem manifests itself at the garage (they almost never do), it will probably be almost impossible to diagnose. You can only try and eliminate the obvious stuff...earths HT leads etc.
Good luck!
Toffer
If it was wet when the problem occurred, you should check that there are no holes or splits in the large air intake hose (N/S of engine compartment) at the front of the engine bay. I have heard of water getting its way in there...
Unless this type of problem manifests itself at the garage (they almost never do), it will probably be almost impossible to diagnose. You can only try and eliminate the obvious stuff...earths HT leads etc.
Good luck!
Toffer
its been about four days now and nothing has happened it still runs good?
could it have been crap from the tank??
ah - you have been deluded into the classic state of - "not sure why it went wrong, no idea to the real cause, it seems ok now....so best leave it alone....it won't show up when i ask the local garage anyway" but deep lurking beneath your bonnet now lives a special tvr gremlin. from now on you will never be able to get rid of him. he will nag forever at your mind and suddenly appear without warning when you are at a traffic lights with a white van on one side and a 911 on the other. the 911 will disappear, the white van man will laugh at you as your personal tvr gremlin rears his head in the shape of your griff loosing all power and simply refusing to move.
been there..done that..got the t-shirt!
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