Car not running right advice

[flyerncle]

Some have had problems with muck in the tank blocking filters on more than one occasion.

Worth a try.

[Enoch]

Check that air is able to get in to your tank. If you are pulling a vaccum as the fuel is pumped out it will cause fuel starvation, which could give a problem like you are describing. Fast way to check is to undo the fuel cap when the car is playing up. You will hear air being sucked in to the tank and the running will return to normal if this is your problem.
Best of luck with fixing it.
Enoch

[twinturbo]

Is there a vapour trap/regulator in line before the carbs.

Is it a mechanical or electric pump.

have you checked the tank outlet?


TT

[chrisxr2]

Thanks all,

enoch car idles fine, if it is misfiring and i pull over to the side of the road and undo the tank will this still work??

Davey, car starts and idles fine, problem is not constant, more driving carefully then once you give it the beans it appears and stays, will check fuel pump, fuel filter cleaned and checked, carb jets checked and cleaned. Coil and timing need checking.

david, Whats the best way of checking the float bowl levels?? Just take the top of the carb and look?

All car ran fine for 70 miles then would not start at all. left till recovery truck arrived. Next day starts fine but problem appears. The fuel filter takes about 10 seconds after stopping the car for the filter to fill back up to the right level, (Just small bubble at top)

[twinturbo]

may be fuel vaporisation..

do a googal..

and do a long mixed run with no bonnet (expels heat)


TT

[leroybrown911]

I would defo check ignition timing. Have known sismilar thing on golf gti mk1 before now, wasnt consistent problem as you would have thought somtimes worse than others.

[chrisxr2]

Had issues with my car hesitating after acceleration back to normal speed driving since i have had it (Bar 70 miles of the journey home from picking it up) Today changed all the plugs leads dizzy etc car is idling fine, let it warm upto temp, no problems, go for a drive, all seems good. after about ten minutes driving car dies. really difficult to restart, then wont rev past about 2k and sounds like tractor. if you try and pull away it just dies, or kangaroos at about ten miles an hour. (Had symptoms yesterday with different ignition items, changed to see if they are the problem)

Engine is 1.6 pinto bored to 2073 with dizzy and rotor arm fitted. car had done 7000 trouble free miles till the day i picked it up. Cleaned all the carb jets, cleaned and ran without fuel filter still no joy. was going to take to a rolling road to get looked at but looks like a trailer job to get there at the minute.

Starting to get a little bit annoyed now.

[davidimurray]

Hopefully the info below might be of some use. I'm not familiar with webbers but had similar problems on a bike of mine where one carb was overfuelling due to the the float level and needle sticking.

http://www.teglerizer.com/dcoe/tweakingdcoes.htm

http://www.piercemanifolds.com/v/vsp...at_Level_1.pdf

http://www.webercarbsdirect.com/v/vs...ng%20Guide.pdf