Van Splutters uphill please help!

Post by **andy3809** » 07 Sep 2007, 19:15

Hi everyone,

Just bought my new van and love it! It has a problem though that is worrying me.. The van drives well through town and when stoping and starting but when trying to go up any sort of incline in chugs and splutters and slows down almost to a complete stop. Also on the motorway when i was driving it home it got up to around 40-45 then the same thing happened. Once i've then pulled in the engine has stopped. I then restart it and it runs fine again for a while then the same thing happens.

Anybody any idea's on what might be wrong? Im afraid im not well up on mechanics so don't really know where to start..

Im in chorley, lancs if anyone knows a good mechanic.

Thankyou in advance

Andy

Post by **HarryMann** » 07 Sep 2007, 19:32

Hi Andy

Have you read this by any chance... the lead-in sticky post for Tech Advice?

https://club8090.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=291

Might help to get some quality responses ... that is as a first timer, would be worth reading up a bit, and if peeps knew exactly What? your vehicle was, replies would be more forthcoming..

First guess would be fuel starvation... fuel filter needs changing maybe, fuel line blocked, not completely uncommon.

Good luck with it... whatever it is

Post by **andy3809** » 07 Sep 2007, 20:50

It's a 1983 1915cc petrol.

Reading through the previous questions it could be the coil, fuel pump, carb..

Any ideas on the best one to try first as funds are limited!

Thanks in advance

Post by **VWCamperfan** » 07 Sep 2007, 21:30

Fuel filter first, then coil, then pump, then carb. Most likely to play up in that order and funilly enough starting from the least expensive as well!