Originally Posted by
TrixNFlix
Right I have done 150 fault free miles since last Thursday, then broke down last night, in asda carpark.
This is my normal starting procedure
choke on full
crank for 2 seconds, which it starts on
let the revs rise to 2000 rpm the drop choke down to half, so it is idling about
1500 revs
drive off!
I noticed at dinertime when I popped to the post office that it wouldn't start using the normal procedure, while on full choke had to give a few pumps of the accelerator, and noticed the revs were not rising very quickly when it had started, resulting in me having to use the accelerator pedal again. Once warm it was fine. Came back to it from the post office, and started first crank, as it does once warm.
I had the same starting issues as at dinnertime when I came to start the car last night. Stopped at asda, came back to it after being in asda for 5 mins, and couldn't get it to start. All I could get was the starter motor cranking.So while waiting for the breakdown guy, I checked I was getting a spark, although it looked a little weak, fuel pump was working, fuel was passing the regulator, compression was fine.
So waited about 45 minutes for the breakdown guy, cranked it over for him, and it started straight away! Talked through everything with him and we couldn't realy come to a conclusion. Anyways traveled 25 miles fault free. Left it outside my house for an hour, came to start it to put it on my drive, and nothing again.Had to push it on to the drive. What I noticed this time was, carb top was still pretty warm. Opinions please chaps. Regards andy