Hi everybody. Help please?
I bought J259 KLU in April. It is a 1600 petrol, and it has run perfectly up until a few weeks ago. It has always started smoothly even when left for several weeks.
Recently sometimes it will start and run smoothly from cold. Sometimes it will start smoothly and then run really rough for a while and then even out. Sometimes it will start really roughly and need holding at a fast idle until it has warmed up and then gradually the roughness smoothes out. A couple of times it has fired and then refused to run at all. Yesterday and today being such occasions. The engine fires but will not pick up. It almost feels as if the timing is out
I have checked, cleaned and lubed the auto choke O rings, checked the vacuum pipes. I have cleaned the contacts inside the dizzy, and cleaned and sprayed the electrical connections to the choke and the computer with WD40. I even tried changing the computer from a Mayfair, which came with a load of parts when I bought the car. But it wouldn't even fire at all with that one.
I was hoping to be able to run it as my regular run about and have sold my other car, so I am stuck for the moment.
Any thoughts will be gratefully received and acted upon.
Thanks.
Geoff
I bought J259 KLU in April. It is a 1600 petrol, and it has run perfectly up until a few weeks ago. It has always started smoothly even when left for several weeks.
Recently sometimes it will start and run smoothly from cold. Sometimes it will start smoothly and then run really rough for a while and then even out. Sometimes it will start really roughly and need holding at a fast idle until it has warmed up and then gradually the roughness smoothes out. A couple of times it has fired and then refused to run at all. Yesterday and today being such occasions. The engine fires but will not pick up. It almost feels as if the timing is out
I have checked, cleaned and lubed the auto choke O rings, checked the vacuum pipes. I have cleaned the contacts inside the dizzy, and cleaned and sprayed the electrical connections to the choke and the computer with WD40. I even tried changing the computer from a Mayfair, which came with a load of parts when I bought the car. But it wouldn't even fire at all with that one.
I was hoping to be able to run it as my regular run about and have sold my other car, so I am stuck for the moment.
Any thoughts will be gratefully received and acted upon.
Thanks.
Geoff
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