Hey guys, the rocco began cutting out when i put my foot down but would start up again, then it broke down and wouldnt start, called the rac went through everything started again fine, he followed me home and it did it again, turned out it had a broken rotor arm, all was fine so drove home and pulled brilliantly, didn't cut out.
Drove it later that night and cut out again, but wouldn't start. problem was i was going to get petrol as it was running very low from the rac constantly revving it and drawing some fuel into a bottle to chekc it, so got towed home and now it won't start even with 15 litres of fuel in, could it need drawing through manually?
any ideas what could be causing it to cut out?
cheers
non-starter
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Re: non-starter
have you checked the condition of the distributor cap too? good practice to replace both at the same time.
is it carb or injection? any other work been done recently? where in the country are you?
is it carb or injection? any other work been done recently? where in the country are you?
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captainwow15
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Re: non-starter
hey, i haven't cheked that, what should i be checking for? its a carb, (h-reg GTII) im near preston lancs.
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Re: non-starter
where abouts near preston are you? Send us a PM, i might be able to pop down later n have chat/look?
Just check for general corrosion on the metal contacts in the dizzy cap, as your rotor arm broke it might have broke the cap too?
Is fuel gettin to the carb = just pull a fuel feed off and try it?? are the plugs wet = fuel and no spark? Simple stuff carb'd engines are, fuel, air and a spark.. might be the coil??
Just check for general corrosion on the metal contacts in the dizzy cap, as your rotor arm broke it might have broke the cap too?
Is fuel gettin to the carb = just pull a fuel feed off and try it?? are the plugs wet = fuel and no spark? Simple stuff carb'd engines are, fuel, air and a spark.. might be the coil??
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captainwow15
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Re: non-starter
ive taken a couple of spark plugs off and rested them against the block and they spark up, when i took them out they were wet though and smelt of fuel, when trying to start it, it pops occasionally and sounds as if its firing on fumes, i could be wrong though.
is there a better way to check for a spark?
is there a better way to check for a spark?
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captainwow15
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Re: non-starter
right, with helps from chaps we have established that there is a spark, there's fuel getting to the carb and unless there's something i haven't checked it should be getting air. what else could it be? its not firing at all.
Any ideas as to what could be causing this to not fire?
could it be a compression problem?
is there a way to check that it is getting fuel to the spark plugs?
Any ideas as to what could be causing this to not fire?
could it be a compression problem?
is there a way to check that it is getting fuel to the spark plugs?