car cutting out after 10mins of driving. HELP!
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car cutting out after 10mins of driving. HELP!
the car will sit at idle all day long, drives superb for about 10mins, then it starts to hesitate like a slight misfire. and will eventually cut out. managed to start it again straight away but running lumpy on idle again and will cut out after about 2mins
when i did start it back up though with the choke out it was revving much higher than normal and dropped back down.
i only got till tuesday to sort this as a guy is buying it and driving it to london from south wales. i wanna get it right now so i know he will be ok going home. i got 3 cars lined up to buy but cant because i still got this.
do any of you reckon it could be the tank still or some other problem?
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They get crap in them which is sucked up to the outlet, that blocks, cuts the engine, fuel stops, bits float to the bottom and you start the process all over again.
I bypassed ours.
TT
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whats that vapour/trap thingy look like? how would i bypass it or unclog it
its a 1.3 driver btw
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could adjusting the fuelling on the carb be an issue?
i replaced the rubber gasket under the carb after i bought the car, as it had 2 huge splits in it. could the previous owner have adjusted air/fuel mixture to compensate for this split
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does any1 have a picture of the fuel vapour trap/presure regulator so i can check this out
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if there was an air leak in the gasket, it would make sense that the air/fuel mix would have been raised to compensate the extra air seeping in. so it could just need co setting. you have got the warm air feed connected?
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i will buy a new air filter tomorrow to for the original air filter casing. and reconnect the pipe. what do i need to do the co setting or could any garage do this for me.
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thank you
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was going to run a seperate fuel tank in a 25 litre oil drum piped straight into the carb. as this will eliminate the dirt in tank. he said he just wants to get the car to london, so this didnt matter. as he is putting a vr6 engine straight in it.
we managed to sort it another way.
upon looking at the inline filter it had started to fill up as if there was a blockage. undon the jubilee clips and what did i find. my mate had used the wrong size jubilee, which kinked and therefore crushed the 2 tails of the filter caused a major restriction in flow. linked it back up with no filter as the dirt seemed now existant now and i took it for 3 spins tonight straight after each other for 30mins each time, given it some stick and it didnt miss a beat.
all that hassle for something simple
he is picking it up tomorrow and im going to look at a vr6 tomorrow night.
got ?1300 to spend on one
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done my head in now as i was supposed to be buying a mk3 vr6 out of the money tonight. why waste peoples time like this. he kept ringing me all week to see if i had sorted it. then i eventually did and this happens.
i took it off sale and only said he could have it because he said i got the cash, will be there tuesday and will 110% have it
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so its running great now. all bits done i was going to do on it. cost me a bit of money to do for bits and bobs but worth it.
so i have slightly increased the price accordingly
from ?600 to ?650
also forgot that i changed a cv gaitor at mot in october, tax until end march.
92k on clocks
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