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Jeees..me again...changed dizzy cap,rotor arm,leads and plugs cause they were dodgy as feck...does run sweeter...in fact i managed to drive around my block a dozen times But..it still has bad flat spots...when coming off the throttle completly and then re applying it will die and then fire back up a...

Cate wrote:Me neither i'm afraid! err, wait for summer sorry....

or set fire to the van...thats what i feel like doing

Cate wrote:

got hit with ice coming out of carb

thats a bit of a giveaway!

...just dont know how to cure it though

Right..have current to under carb heater, with airbox off when i accelerate there is nice squirt of fuel down carb so i presume acc pump working ok, Whilst it was warming up if i moved the choke flap open with my finger engine would die and i got hit with ice coming out of carb!! When warmed up and ...

Right,oil doesnt smell of petrol,level looks sound also,will test feed to under carb heater How can i check the accelerator pump?..on top of the carb there is little curved brass pipe pointing down the venturi,is this from acc pump?...should it be squirting fuel when i throttle up? Thanks all BTW it...

Manifold heater thang is there,and hoses all connected
Not familiar with carb heater?..how do i check this?
conditions i would say were just about freezing,plenty of snow today and yesterday

Really bugging me,only had the bus a week and it was going ok until last night

Ok,follow on from my stuttering thread..it died on me completly about 500 metres from my house this morning,at first wouldnt fire at all,then after a while it would fire and die, Walked back and took other car to work Started up first time when i got back from work but still tried to die under accel...

My DG 1.9 started to stutter and have some quite bad flat spots on the way home from work today,previously it has been fine although it has seemed to struggle to warm up in the last few (cold) days,it runs crap when cold,fine when warm Could my problems be carb icing?.was actually snowing quite heav...