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Re: bad petrol/ diesel at texico
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 10:56 pm
by ado28
MarinaCoupe wrote:
Fix
Step 1 - clean the carb out. It should be possible to take the carb off and dismantle it carefully, clean it and rebuild it without needing a rebuild kit.
Step 2 - fit a decent inline fuel filter as close to the carb as possible - EBay has loads.
Step 3 - replace as a minimum all the hose from the new filter to the carb with ethanol resitant hose (ask before buying), ideally replace all the hoses right back to the tank. Look for hose that meets the following standard - DIN 73379 TYPE 3 E (Rev. 11/97) - available on EBay - make sure that you buy the correct internal diameter (ID) to fit your hose fittings.
Step 4 - setup carb mixture to run cleanly.
I would do as Chris has suggested. I went through this procedure and Reynard has ran perfect since and he's about to head back down south again for another 600 mile trip!
sean
Re: bad petrol/ diesel at texico
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 7:51 am
by littleburner1
hey thanks did as you guys said turned out to be condenser had a broken earth wire
Re: bad petrol/ diesel at texico
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 8:18 am
by MarinaCoupe
So the Tesco/Texico fuel was OK.
Chris
www.marinacoupe.co.uk
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Re: bad petrol/ diesel at texico
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 9:01 am
by jiversteve
I think we were inadvertantly fed a red herring, thinking it was a fuel problem, when it ends up being electric.
It's one of the prolems of remote diagnosis. A little surprised that a breakdown recovery did not diagnose the prolem but there must be relatively few cars on the road that have not got a distributor or some form of electronic ignition that does away with the condenser.
It might be an opportune time to fit an electronic ignition. Even the cheap ones from eBay will give you a better, more consistant, spark, improving cold starting, engine performance and fuel economy.