Help needed in Warwickshire

[sarahandthebear]

Is there anyone in the Warwick area who could help us out. We're having trouble with our van cutting out, a 1984 1.9 dg. We have a thred about it on the electrical section. We have been advised to see if someone could bring a working dizzy and try it in our van to determine if it's the hall sender. If the van runs without cutting out we know it's that and will replace the sender

[silverbullet]

What are the symptoms? Is the cutting out consistent or random (always after the same time/mileage)? What parts (if any) have you swapped so far and if so, were they known/good or new parts?

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[sarahandthebear]

This is the link to the thred we have been talking about trying to find the problem https://club8090.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=168080" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Ant-t]

My van was randomly cutting out a couple of years back, I went through testing and swapping out electrical parts but it turned out to be the fuel system. I would eliminate this if you haven't already done so. For me it was a new tank, lines, filter and carb rebuild (following James' excellent video).

[300CE]

Hi Sarah, I’ve had a rummage in the garage and have located a dizzy - I’ll be happy to post this to you for testing and if it works will be happy to sell it to you. If it doesn’t, just post it back to me as it’ll go back in spares.

If that sounds ok, PM me your address details and I’ll post it this week.

[sarahandthebear]

Thanks for all your help guys but a very friendly club member has offered to come over. He is going to bring all the parts we need to test hopefully we can figure out what it is. I'll let you all know how we get on

[The Hairy Camper]

Glad someone is able to help you Sarah. The T25/T3 community are pretty awesome

[Ant-t]

Good luck with it, I'm sure you'll get to the bottom of the cause.

[300CE]

Thanks for all your help guys but a very friendly club member has offered to come over. He is going to bring all the parts we need to test hopefully we can figure out what it is. I'll let you all know how we get on

That’s great news - Deffo update us on how it goes.

[sarahandthebear]

Little update Simon one of our club members, very kindly came over and bought some parts to try. Now before going to far we realised the we have an early 1.9 dg and he has the later one. We're not sure if this effects the parts we used but if so just say so we can eleminat that. So we changed the coil the moduel and the dizzy all over. Still no luck which baffled us completely. Then used the new dizzy and my coil and modual. Still no luck unfortunately. This was with other wiring so not even the one on our van and still it did not fire. After a lot of investigation we start wandering if it could be the fuel. He left and I went and checked for a spark and low and behold we had a good spark. But the van was still stubborn and would not start this was with all my original parts I checked the fuel filter and it was nearly empty and black full of crud. When I turned over the engine hardly any fuel was comming through at all. I orderd some new filters as there dirt cheap but I really think it's fuel related. It's just so strange about the whole electrical problems, it's absolutely baffleing any ideas guys

[Sir Brixalot]

If theres hardly any fuel coming out it could well be fuel related. It sounds suspiciously like a mine which was a fuel pump issue. The rod underneath had worn and wasn't moving the pump

[300CE]

Didn’t the RAC chap check for fuel delivery Sarah?!

[sarahandthebear]

No he only checked the electronic components. We did mention to him about the carb and could it be something to do with the fule pump but he seemed sure it was electrical. We having our doubts now though and think it's fuel

[jrt]

Evening, new filter and take the pipe off that goes to the carb' and see if it's pumping through. If it's crap out of your fuel tank you'll have to clean the cone filter in the carb' inlet too-removed with a small self tapper screw. If you take the fuel pump off and work it manually you will soon tell if it's knackered.
David.

[VeraPedroMariaWang]

I was the member that popped over to see the bear! His van seemed to want to start, turned over well had a good spark,just wasn’t getting the juice it seemed to me. I picked up a late DG with all the ancillaries for spares which I’m happy for sarahandthebear to try bits off of. There engine is an early DG but the fuel pumps are the same for late and early?
I will drop off said carb and fuel pump early Friday morning if anyone can think of anything else let me know and I’ll stick it in the box if I have it.
Sarahandthebear I’m not in a rush for the bits back so take your time with them. Having looked down your carb it might be an idea to get a kit from brickwerks and refurb yours. I’d give it a good clean if you have it off at the very least.