Hi all,
I have a 1988 1.6 205 auto, the one with the standard Weber 36TLC carb (auto choke).
It's been off the road for just over a year now but I have been starting it up regularly.
It now suddenly refuses to start. I've checked the following but with no success:
#Carb has been removed, stripped, cleaned thoroughly & replaced.
#Fuel is definately getting to the carb. There is also plenty of fresh fuel in the tank.
#All HT leads, spark plugs, dizzy cap etc are all less than a year old so are all good. The battery is brand new.
When turning the key the engine is really trying to start but it does not fire up. The engine will start for a second or two with a good squirt of Easystart so we know the engine is not siezed & the starter is good.
The car has allways run rough since I've had it. It's a tw*at to start in a morning & usually stalls if you accellerate heavily, which was the reason I recently removed, stripped & cleaned the carb.
Everytime when trying to start from cold it does take a few seconds of cranking before you can see the fuel flowing along the fuel pipe into the carb, almost like trying to start a car which has just been run out of fuel then had a jerry can of petrol added? You know, when you have to wait for the new fuel to get around the system before it fires back into life.
I think when it's switched off all the fuel in the system could be trickling back into the tank rather than staying pressurised in the feed pipe to the engine. Could this be a split air diaphragm in the carb as someone recently suggested to me? Or a fuel pump problem?
Or perhaps the coil could be on it's way out & that is making the ignition spark weak?
I'm not that good mechanically so any thoughts or suggestions would be much appreciated!!
Thanks guys!!!!
I have a 1988 1.6 205 auto, the one with the standard Weber 36TLC carb (auto choke).
It's been off the road for just over a year now but I have been starting it up regularly.
It now suddenly refuses to start. I've checked the following but with no success:
#Carb has been removed, stripped, cleaned thoroughly & replaced.
#Fuel is definately getting to the carb. There is also plenty of fresh fuel in the tank.
#All HT leads, spark plugs, dizzy cap etc are all less than a year old so are all good. The battery is brand new.
When turning the key the engine is really trying to start but it does not fire up. The engine will start for a second or two with a good squirt of Easystart so we know the engine is not siezed & the starter is good.
The car has allways run rough since I've had it. It's a tw*at to start in a morning & usually stalls if you accellerate heavily, which was the reason I recently removed, stripped & cleaned the carb.
Everytime when trying to start from cold it does take a few seconds of cranking before you can see the fuel flowing along the fuel pipe into the carb, almost like trying to start a car which has just been run out of fuel then had a jerry can of petrol added? You know, when you have to wait for the new fuel to get around the system before it fires back into life.
I think when it's switched off all the fuel in the system could be trickling back into the tank rather than staying pressurised in the feed pipe to the engine. Could this be a split air diaphragm in the carb as someone recently suggested to me? Or a fuel pump problem?
Or perhaps the coil could be on it's way out & that is making the ignition spark weak?
I'm not that good mechanically so any thoughts or suggestions would be much appreciated!!
Thanks guys!!!!
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