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Aidan-Fleming
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5th Aug 12 at 00:16   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Was driving car tonight and eveything going alright then the car started to splutter then cut out, so started it again and now it wont start! So put fuel in the car and checked the fuel nipple and its getting fuel. Then tryed the battery with leads and its got battery. Checked ignition wire and that looks fine. Its got water and oil and fuel!

What the fuck could it be?
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Check your main gearbox to chassis earth. Might have worked loose.
Aidan-Fleming
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How do i check that mate? Lol
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How do i check that mate? Lol
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Check all of the brown wires in the engine bay which are your earths.


Once you've done that, take spark plug out, plug it back into the HT Lead leave it resting on the cam cover, and crank it over see if it sparks.
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okay, what plug and spark plug as theres 4? lol
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quote:
Originally posted by Jamie-C
Check your main gearbox to chassis earth. Might have worked loose.


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quote:
Originally posted by Aidan-Fleming
okay, what plug and spark plug as theres 4? lol

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Aidan-Fleming
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Okay tryed that and its not etting a spark, so removed all plugs and there all total black, but there NGK R plugs and are 4 weeks old!
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ive heard that if the plugs are black the car could be over fueling, and to be honest its does go through alot of fuel! Does anyone know how to stop this?
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If your plugs are black, they it's running rich. Which could be down something like a faulty, coolent temp sensor, O2 sensor or air flow meter.

If it's not sparking check your dizzy cap, and rotor arm they might knacked if you've got them. Also the crank postion sensor tells the ecu to spark.

The trouble is these engines are all pretty old now, so it could be all manner of things. Even the loom could be fudged.
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Okay thank you, I will check all these thing
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I could also be down to a air leak.
Aidan-Fleming
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Oh god theres so many things it could be!!
Darryl H
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5th Aug 12 at 21:19   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Do you have an O2 sensor?

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Aidan-Fleming
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I really couldnt tell you, i dont know what that is. All i know is its a late engine redtop
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It's not getting a spark now, Distributor fucked?
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Not getting spark could be a few things, #1 being the plug to the ecu not secured properly resulting no power to the coil but if it's a late engine it would be coil pack instead of distributor?

Coil pack could be gone, might need new spark plugs, HT Leads etc. If it's recently stopped I'd say it's something to do with wiring if nothing else is showing signs of wear.

Are you sure all the earths are earthed out well? That would also give you the symptons you're having


Also, the O2 sensor is the Lambda sensor, the normal place to find it is on the down pipe bit of the manifold just past the sump



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Aidan-Fleming
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Yeah it has a distributor, my mate had a spare one so will try that with original plugs then if tht don't work I'll get new ones. Then if that dont work Jump a bridge lol

Thanks for your help though
Darryl H
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could be a coil if it's distributor?

Check with a multi meter that it's acutally getting power

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check fuel pump relay as it stopped all of a sudden
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^ Forgot about that one

EDIT: but it wouldn't be getting fuel if it was that?

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It's defo getting fuel. Tried the nipple. Took the distruibutr Off ad it's really rusty! :/
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That is a coilpack.

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