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by Sunfly
Mon Mar 31, 2025 5:52 pm
Forum: The Garage - Technical Forum
Topic: Any tips for stopping distributor oil leak?
Replies: 5
Views: 3174

Re: Any tips for stopping distributor oil leak?

I'd be inclined to check for casting cracks if you've done all that, but have you checked the o-ring compression? Measure the bore the o ring sits in then measure the outside diameter of the fitted o-ring when fitted to the dizzy. you need about "0.015 thou (0.4mm if you've been converted) compressi...
by Sunfly
Mon Mar 03, 2025 12:49 pm
Forum: The Garage - Technical Forum
Topic: 1st 1000 miles - few teething issues
Replies: 1
Views: 6924

Re: 1st 1000 miles - few teething issues

Is it a 2ltr or 2.5 for erratic revs If its 2 ltr it could well be carbon in the throttle control body (auto choke). I used to get that regularly every 3 years. Check your coolant level is correct though, before getting the spanners out as the waxstat works on water temp. No water - no control. For ...
by Sunfly
Tue Dec 17, 2024 9:26 pm
Forum: The Garage - Technical Forum
Topic: Probe won't rev beyond 4000rpm and lacks power
Replies: 8
Views: 22908

Re: Probe won't rev beyond 4000rpm and lacks power

When I first started reading I was thinking fuel filter, especially after being laid up so long. Id be inclined to change the fuel, the fuel filter and air filter as a matter of course and Id give the fuel some injector cleaner too. When I bought the FM it had been running on supermarket fuel (false...
by Sunfly
Thu Nov 14, 2024 9:05 pm
Forum: The Garage - Technical Forum
Topic: No hot/cold air
Replies: 13
Views: 59381

Re: No hot/cold air

I would still be inclined to backflush the heater matrix. It can get air locked on a 2ltr even though logic says its not not the heater.
by Sunfly
Thu Jul 11, 2024 7:14 am
Forum: The Garage - Technical Forum
Topic: High rpm idle, and bogging out
Replies: 8
Views: 32464

Re: High rpm idle, and bogging out

I wouldnt. I was always able to take out the 4 screws holding the waxstat valve cover on with the body in situ. My memory is hazy as I havent don this in years but from memory engine coolant flows past a wax operated piston that in turn regulates the tickover air volume. This whole mechanism gets cl...
by Sunfly
Mon Jul 08, 2024 1:54 pm
Forum: The Garage - Technical Forum
Topic: High rpm idle, and bogging out
Replies: 8
Views: 32464

Re: High rpm idle, and bogging out

Sounds like coking up of the thermoststic throttle control valve if its a 16v.

Very, very carefully take it apart and clean it (in situ). Watch out for the spring.

It was a regular 2 - 3 year job on the Flying Machine.

Make sure your water level is correct and check that first.
by Sunfly
Mon Apr 08, 2024 5:05 pm
Forum: The Garage - Technical Forum
Topic: No start
Replies: 18
Views: 45769

Re: No start

Will do Bob,got a dissy coming and new key coming got a new cps here as well so once all here i will work my way through it all You'll sort it Kev - never in doubt. Thinking about it, I suppose if the fault was with the Dizzy TDC, you might get a different result. The ECU might allow a start courte...
by Sunfly
Mon Apr 08, 2024 1:05 am
Forum: The Garage - Technical Forum
Topic: No start
Replies: 18
Views: 45769

Re: No start

Cant help over the key issue but I can say that mine is a Temic reg 1997 and it very definitely would not start with a faulty CPS. It will run on the TDC signal from the dizzy without the CPS but needs the CPS when starting to identify the position of the crank and I presume, to tell the ECU that th...
by Sunfly
Sat Apr 06, 2024 12:43 pm
Forum: The Garage - Technical Forum
Topic: No start
Replies: 18
Views: 45769

Re: No start

You've got me racking my brains now for the checks I did and I'm pretty sure I too had no fuel even though the trip was set and I changed the pump relay, so my recollection was that I similarly had no signal to pump fuel from the ecu and that sort of makes sense if you know (ecu) that you're noy goi...
by Sunfly
Fri Apr 05, 2024 5:58 pm
Forum: The Garage - Technical Forum
Topic: No start
Replies: 18
Views: 45769

Re: No start

Running normally when it stopped, now wont start! Classic CPS and the only circumstances under which this can happen if no other problem has come along during the non running period. AS you are all bored of hearing, mine was the lead cut through by the pulley but any disruption to that circuit has t...