Newbie need advice

Hi all,
Been checking out the forum for ages and have finally bitten the bullet and bought a 1.8 Clipper (photos soon).
I drove the car home to Sussex from Cambridgeshire via Suffolk to pick up some ATS Cups and travelled 270 miles in the process. Unfortunately, having picked up my new wheels the car started to stall when slowing down and stopping at junctions and finally it started kangarooing and finally refused to go. I was sure that the car was overheating as the fan hadnt come on however the AA man got the fan working fairly easily and checked the wiring of the fan and sensors and found no problems. The car made it home (170 miles) without problems until I got close to home then it started to cut out again coming up to junctions and roundabouts. The next day it did the same after only a few miles and then started kangarooing again.
Im a little confused as the car behaves impeccably on fast roads but is a nightmare in traffic.
Its a Pierburg Carbed 1.8 automatic Clipper with 80k on the clock.

Any advice appreciated.
Thanks, Andy

could need your carb cleaning out, poss the idle jet and/or slow running jets blocked

good luck with it

chris

have a look at the pick up filter in the tank

i had this a few times and my filers were clogged with rust from the tank

i'd be tempted to clean the fuel system out i.e clean the carb, blow out the fuel lines, new filters

Thanks will have a good look at the fuel lines etc. Ticks over really well when cold which is confusing that it should refuse to tickover when warm/hot. Was thinking that the Peirburg carb might have seen better days so was considering binning it for a weber replacement.

best thing i eva did was to get a weber!!!

Snap.. Same car, Same problem, Just fixed it  :mrgreen:

 Really simple fix for me, might not be the same for you but worth a try.

Simply changed the spark plugs for nice new ones and bingo. I think it was the fact that under load the weak spark was being put out by the fuel.

Worth a try for a tenner..  Fingers crossed for you.

Sounds like the car is in need of a good service all round. I changed all the bit I could after buying mine, filters, plugs, leads, dizzy cap & rota arm.

Have you checked the in line plastic filter, these can clog up too.

I had the opposite problem with my pierberg, it went loopy and started running at 3000 rpm. I am not a lover of them, mine hit the bin after the high speed running incident! I run a totally different carb and manifold now, It runs brilliant, although fuel consumption ain't too good!

Good luck with the car mate  

Cheers for the info guys.
Been running it over the last week and its really puzzzling me. One day it will run like a pig, cutting out at low speed and refusing to tickover, next day, sweet as a nut, ticks over lovely and no problems at all. Next day, runs like a pig again :dontknow: . Brilliant at cruising speed and beyond but slow speeds (its an auto) just on and off. In this respect doesnt sound like a leccy issue? The inline filter is a large metal one from a GTI i think?

I'm not sure a clipper should have a large metal filter, these are usually found on injection engined cars. Carbs use much smaller filters.

Will it affect the performance then???

possibly on the carb engine mate.

The carb engine uses a suction pump on the engine block with a small inline filter between the pump and the carb in the engine bay

Injection is a push pump in the tank and runs in a loop so it would have no problem filling the filter canister.
 
You can pick up the bits to remove the filter at any car spares place. I'd get shut of the metal canister and get the system back to how it should be.