ollie240585
Ex. Club Member
My car is not at all well, at the moment she's stalling, mis firing and getting the occassionall complete loss of power!
It all started on Sunday after I changed the fuel filter, dizzy cap and rotary arm. After changing these the car was running lovely, was idling really nicely and all was good.
Went round my mates house, when I went to leave, I turned the engine over, was on the phone (handbrake still applied, not in gear etc) then I felt the engine lose power, then battery light came on, I floored it and kept the engine ticking over. I continued to drive down the road, came to a junction and the car stalled. Turned the ignition and it started 1st time with a little help from the accelerator. I carried on, got to a mini round about and it stalled again! Puled into a car park to pick someone up, left my foot on the accelerator (fast idled), slowly released the accelerator and it stalled again. Started the engine again, pulled off and the car was kangoorooing (if there's such a word) like crazy!!
I dropped my m8s off and came straight home, me n my step dad, stripped the dizzy and all seemed fine. We took it for a little drive, and it was getting worse. The engine was stalling at about 50/60 MPHs, the engine light came on, it would jerk, and the engine would start itself again. I'm sure a "push" start at 60mphs can not be good for the engine!!! Just driving down my road, turning around at a round about, then coming back, it must have done this about 10 times! Pulled up outside and the engine stalled. The cars been on my mums drive way for 2 days now. I've jst started her and she's starting fine, first time off the key, no need for revving. I opened up the engine bay and can hear the occassional "ticking" coming from somewhere!! It sounds like the noise you'd hear from a spark jumping! I am not sure where abouts it is coming from, maybe the dizzy, maybe one of the HTs/spark plugs. I just don't know.
In a nut shell......HELP ME!!!
I've tried to go into much detail as possible with the details of the faults. I think it may be an ignition problem, I was going to check over leads, plugs, take dizzy apart again. Anything other than that....i'm stummped!!!
Any ideas would be most greatful. Many thanks in advance.
Ollie
update
Well I've removed HT leads 1 by one with the engine running and the car's running on 4 cylinders!
It was idling fine, the car sits there absoloutly fine, car rev it, rev it hard, keep it at high revs, then let it go back to idle and the engines fine.
Tried reversing it off of the driveway and moved about 3 metres before it stalled!!! hunk of junk!!!
It all started on Sunday after I changed the fuel filter, dizzy cap and rotary arm. After changing these the car was running lovely, was idling really nicely and all was good.
Went round my mates house, when I went to leave, I turned the engine over, was on the phone (handbrake still applied, not in gear etc) then I felt the engine lose power, then battery light came on, I floored it and kept the engine ticking over. I continued to drive down the road, came to a junction and the car stalled. Turned the ignition and it started 1st time with a little help from the accelerator. I carried on, got to a mini round about and it stalled again! Puled into a car park to pick someone up, left my foot on the accelerator (fast idled), slowly released the accelerator and it stalled again. Started the engine again, pulled off and the car was kangoorooing (if there's such a word) like crazy!!
I dropped my m8s off and came straight home, me n my step dad, stripped the dizzy and all seemed fine. We took it for a little drive, and it was getting worse. The engine was stalling at about 50/60 MPHs, the engine light came on, it would jerk, and the engine would start itself again. I'm sure a "push" start at 60mphs can not be good for the engine!!! Just driving down my road, turning around at a round about, then coming back, it must have done this about 10 times! Pulled up outside and the engine stalled. The cars been on my mums drive way for 2 days now. I've jst started her and she's starting fine, first time off the key, no need for revving. I opened up the engine bay and can hear the occassional "ticking" coming from somewhere!! It sounds like the noise you'd hear from a spark jumping! I am not sure where abouts it is coming from, maybe the dizzy, maybe one of the HTs/spark plugs. I just don't know.
In a nut shell......HELP ME!!!
I've tried to go into much detail as possible with the details of the faults. I think it may be an ignition problem, I was going to check over leads, plugs, take dizzy apart again. Anything other than that....i'm stummped!!!
Any ideas would be most greatful. Many thanks in advance.
Ollie
update
Well I've removed HT leads 1 by one with the engine running and the car's running on 4 cylinders!
It was idling fine, the car sits there absoloutly fine, car rev it, rev it hard, keep it at high revs, then let it go back to idle and the engines fine.
Tried reversing it off of the driveway and moved about 3 metres before it stalled!!! hunk of junk!!!
