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Cheers, as I'm looking down on the engine I was hooking onto the cable from spark plug situated left nearest me, have I commited a school boy error!

Bouight a timing gun at the wknd and attepted to check my timing. All going well removed the vacum pipe and found my two timing marks on the pulley. BUT when I checked my marks they are at the bottom of the pulley when using the strobe when they should be seen at the top, the timing mark should be i...

Cheers for the advice, last night I renewed my fuel filter as I always carry a spare. The old one was minging, I think thats because I kept running my tank down to fumes :roll: . Fuel flow from the tank to the filter was good as I so no blocked hose to the filter, checked my breather pipes to the ex...

thought about that to , so since you said it I'm also going to change the fuel filter tonight.

Cheeers

Nice one EM start work tonight and update tomorrow, your right abot the idle, it idles fine yet fuel seems to tricle into the fuel filter and not flow, so under load there could not be enough pumping done by the pump,we could be on to something here
Cheers for the advice.
Pete

Also I notice a week or two ago that oil seems to be coming out of the large air intake hose, the air filters clean but theres definite evidence of oil in betwwn the filter and input, I havent taken off the hose yet to have a look, would this cause me these problems, the engines only done about 5k.

Looks like I'm busy tonight, thanks for the response from you all. I have a feeling from the posts that fuel could be an issue here, tin of worms I guess. :( All the ht leads are a year old, new rotor and dizzy a year ago. How do I test the fuel pump as normaly my fuel ffilter is full and its almost...

I do smell fuel but not a masssive ammount when i've tried to start her but I also have noticed that my fuel economy has been terrible not the 25mg I'm used to, I took off my fuel tank a year ago or so as the fuel sender float fell off, the tank was'nt in great condition (a few rust spots in the usu...

I hope some one can help. Its a 1985 1.9 dg. A new engine at that. About a month ago I was driving down the motorway and at about 50mph it would momenteraly cut out, I would come off the gas and back on and it was fine. This problem seemed to clear for a week. Its always been a good starter and even...

Thats the one!!!! Easy to fit and well strong. good luck

I had this problem, I now can carry loads of boards on my roof, I bought a Thule roof rack that locks onto my gutters and goes over the top of the high top, looks ok to and excellent quality but not cheap, Carry 2 stand up paddle boards two short boards and a mal. Nothing in the van,, sweet! People ...

Get some measuring jugs from the pound shop, put 200ml of paint in one jug and 50ml of thinners in another and mix and fold in. Thats 20%, in winter that will be fine, maybe go 25% for the final coat and put on thinly , realy work that roller around. If you flat back between coats 1200 grade I find ...

Third week and third coat going on tonight, it is fantasic stuff but I think realy realy get the nack for it on the secound coat.

Just got my thule roof rack it goes up past the gutters by 60-76 cm. This allows me to put two stand up paddle paddle boards on my hightop All in it cost 190 quid delivered. It attaches to the gutters and is well made.

Vactan is awsome stuff, my wife and I completed our first coat of rollering in last two days. Its two tone so it makes it abit more difficult but worth it. I will post some pics soon. Spent two weeks doing the prep, there was little rust but were there was it was vactaned big time,again and again. T...