I have a problem that I really need to rectify preferably ASAP as this is my daily and with uni resuming I need it to get there.
Car was driving along beautifully on 98 RON fuel, better than it ever has on Tuesday night, take off from a set of lights slowly and the car stalled dead in it's tracks.
This turned out to simply be an ignition wire to the coil falling off - With that fixed I drove home (Car still running very well).
The next time I tried to drive it (The next night), it feels like it's constantly 'cold' -Temp guage is warming up to 1/4 which is normal for this block
By this I mean it feels sluggish, it's got no get-up and go, if you put your foot lightly on the gas to about 1/4 it has small surges, sometimes very small backfires and backfire pops through the carby etc.
Flat to the floor gearbox still kicks down normally [and still gear changes smoothly isn't sliping etc. so i've ruled out box] and so on.
The exhaust note even sounds different, either like it's running on 6-7 cyls (though pulling off spark plugs one by one shows a drop in revs so i think they're firing) or flooding [it sounds drowned and not as sharp if that makes sense]
For all intents and purposes it feels like the car is permanently cold - Either being flooded with fuel or not enough (also evident by backfires).
I'm looking at the carby as culprit but aside from the car running perfectly one night to the very next night without being started to having these problems I don't know what's going on :<
Carby hasn't been touched, should I just try carby cleaner first? Fiddle with mixtures (though I'm doubting this is going to help) or go straight to pulling it apart and replacing needle/seat and float?
Seems odd that it would happen overnight and a day with the engine off. :<
Cheers.
Edited by Loki, 20 July 2006 - 03:20 PM.