HELP!! broken down, gas problems ?
Posted: 24 Apr 2006, 18:29
Hi everyone and HELP!!! I've got an 85 Westy running a 2.1 engine running on gas.
I've only had it a couple of months and up until now its not missed a beat, this morning it started as normal but I noticed it wanted to stall at the first couple of junctions when I stoped which its never done before.
When it did it a mile down the road I decided to pull over and see if it would idle, it wouldn't idle but I gave the throttle a biggish blip and all was fine after that and I drove about 15 miles trouble free.
This evening I had to take one of my dogs to the vet and the bus did the same thing, after about half a mile I tried to put my foot down in third and when it got to about 3 thousand revs it started to lose power.
I just about got to the vets ( where I was Royally shafted by the way ) but when I got out it still wasn't happy, it started but as soon as I tried to pull off it lost power and wanted to stall.
Sorry this is getting long isn't it
anyway I had a look under the engine cover and the LPG thingy ( its a technical term ) that looks like a pump of some sort was completely iced up.
So I was thinking I had a Mk3 Golf once that had exactly the same symptoms when the carb iced up, are LPG systems known to do this ?
Anyone got any ideas as my Westy is stuck in a none to pleasant side street at the moment and my only idea so far is to sleep in it so that it doesn't get smashed up by idiots
Cheers
Steve
I've only had it a couple of months and up until now its not missed a beat, this morning it started as normal but I noticed it wanted to stall at the first couple of junctions when I stoped which its never done before.
When it did it a mile down the road I decided to pull over and see if it would idle, it wouldn't idle but I gave the throttle a biggish blip and all was fine after that and I drove about 15 miles trouble free.
This evening I had to take one of my dogs to the vet and the bus did the same thing, after about half a mile I tried to put my foot down in third and when it got to about 3 thousand revs it started to lose power.
I just about got to the vets ( where I was Royally shafted by the way ) but when I got out it still wasn't happy, it started but as soon as I tried to pull off it lost power and wanted to stall.
Sorry this is getting long isn't it
anyway I had a look under the engine cover and the LPG thingy ( its a technical term ) that looks like a pump of some sort was completely iced up.So I was thinking I had a Mk3 Golf once that had exactly the same symptoms when the carb iced up, are LPG systems known to do this ?
Anyone got any ideas as my Westy is stuck in a none to pleasant side street at the moment and my only idea so far is to sleep in it so that it doesn't get smashed up by idiots
Cheers
Steve
