Losing Power - new engine?

[Plasticman]

sense at last
mike

[dugwiththevwbug]

engine revving the breasticles of it???
if thats in need of a strip down i am osama bin ladle

does it idle, has the spanner monkey checked the filter within the carb intake spigot?

was running before fuel outage then as above crud in fuel lines or idle circuit just running an engine out of fuel does not make it mechanically fail.

let someone with an idea take a look Aidans your man

or as said if idling and revving but no motion then clutch probs
keep us posted
regards doug

[croc]

After all previous mentioned checks - filter, carb, leads, plugs etc - is the pesky speed limiting distributor rotor OK?
Changed mine to normal fixed rotor and have just returned from 2600+ mile France, Spain, Portugal drive where our 1.9 WBX did entire trip faultlessly.

[Aidan]

Had a look see this afternoon and fettled a bit, not quite what I expected
The garage guy there had got it pretty much spot on, just didn't have T25 wbx knowledge and his motor factor not the best either. He's Polish, and from what I saw today most of his customers are today, but he's cool about me working on Chrissie's van there and let me use me his copper slip and some oil
tappets madly out of adjustment, like there would have been no intake into 1 cylinder at all the valve would never have opened, and the lifters aren't all pressurized properly yet
Weber carb
v tired rotor arm, king lead and disi cap, poor vac leads
though the spark leads themselves genuine VW and fairly fresh
NGK spark plugs not sure the correct ones supplied by Unipart
dirty fuel filter but not that bad
leaking rocker cover and gaskets
front main oil seal leaks
clutch worn out and slightly slippy
oil breather hose to chassis
knackered early exhaust on a late van
noisey alternator 65 or 90 amp
gear linkage out of adjustment

changed fuel filter, spark plugs, rotor, disi cap, king lead, gaskets and reset tappets to 1 1/4 and timing to standard 5 degrees btdc - does anyone know if it should be retarded for the weber - that's how it was set up - probably just set up with vac advance connected last time, and new vac lines/connectors

it's driveable now but needs some more tlc; banged in a big list to Mick at Preston hopefully can get a lot of stuff good used

[kevtherev]

brilliant Aiden .. well done matey
just shows that even a poor set up won't kill these old engines

happy days it will soon be reet

[CovKid]

Heck Aidan, thats a fair list

[Silky]

Heck Aidan, thats a fair list

Yep, I haven't quite picked myself off the floor yet. We'd much rather get it sorted now though rather than end up picnicking on the hard shoulder of the M6 on our first trip, we'll be using the van to get to a number of events we organise so need it to be fairly reliable. Fortunately the body and interior's in good condition, thank God, it'll be bread and water for a while after this.

Polish garage guy is cool about Aidan using his ramps next week too so hopefully the van can be sorted and we can go on tour - it's been a killer having to wait!

Silky