Club 80-90 Forums

HI
my 1.6 derv (original petrol) is difficult to start now mornings are
cold / damp,
replaced heater plugs, heater selinoid,battery fully charged,
take a good 60 secs with finger on heater plug switch /button,
befor it will start,any thing else i could check?
thanks
steve.

Hope this is not a silly question but are you pulling out the cold start/chokey thing that apparently advances the timing and or richens the mixture ?? Don,t think the push button on your dash is standard and I think it is OK as long as it heats the hot plugs via a relay as some I have seen have high current cables right upto the dash.........not good practice.

HI
the button on dash is conected via relay ect,to heater plugs,to
help with cold start,
thanks
steve.

Mine will not start without the advanced lever out, when it is out it fires up first time

HI
as mine dose,nt have advance lever,
presume the button an dash does the same job?
thanks
steve.o

I am not an authority on this, just another one time cold start refugee ! Two things assist cold start one being heater plugs and this alone was not much help. Then someone on this forum pointed out "the chokey thing" I was expecting to find a knob to pull but then as if by magic there it was, just in front of my left knee 3" X 2" square...........how did I miss it ? Mine just will not start without it, even when hot it fires up quicker. Mine is an 87 1.7 and I dont know if they were fitted to all diesels but there again if yours was previously a petrol I would have thought that what used to be a choke cable would have been hooked up to the advance mech on the pump. Take a look under the rocker box side of the pump..is there an arm there not hooked up to anything ? If there is how about tying it forward and see if it works.
Good luck in your search.

Thanks
will do,steve.o