1.7
on occasions the car wont start.
It cranks over fine and is reluctant to start.
it may be me but it seems to be when i park on a slight gradient?
car isnt hesitant while driving.
can also happen more than once i.e. difficult to start, then longish drive. stop and then does it again.
the only times i managed to get it started would be with the choke fully out and after constant stamping/foot to floor on gas (due to extreme frustration and being pi$$ed off)
any ideas as I thought I cured it with some carb cleaner last night but it still happened
was going to treat it to some rimmage and bits but not if it pisses me off
Do the problems relate to engine temperature at all? sometimes our 1.7 is hesitant when warm, as opposed to hot or cold, and I know Chris had severe problems with warm starting which I believe he resolved, so he could be the person to answer this...
When is it not starting? You said on a gradient, and then after 15-20mins, does it matter if hot/cold or the weather etc?
If it's the warm start thing, I'd put money on you having a replacement weber carb. The warm start issues I had were if you'd driven long enough to get off choke, and left it for 15-30 mins, it wouldn't catch.
I "properly" fixed mine 2 days ago, I'd bodged it so I could get it start a couple of months ago. Can you give us some more symptoms?
well the car starts fine from my drive (flat ground) probably cold too as I only use to pick up my boys after work so not driven prior to that.
after 10 min drive i park up on a kerb to get my boys. on occasions this hasn't started first time when i return (15mins?). I guess the car is warm as its probably no more than 2 miles distance (town)
weatherwise - rain that one time and others have been cool days (hasnt seen summer yet in my ownership.
thiking about it - it probably didnt have anything to do with the gradient/slope as on different occasions it has been flat ground.
i ooked at the fuel line to the pump and there's a couple of tubes leading to/form the pump. one is black (has a fuel filter plumbed in) and the other is clear and I can see fuel attempting to go up the tube into the pump not constant flow but pulses.
also the fuel filter looks a bit mank too
Would these haveanything todo with it? I thought it could be fuel linep/ump related
Replace the fuel filter, it isn't worth much, check the air filter and sparkplug, make sure the basics are all good before you go chasing anything bigger.
If it won't start when warm, try the 'its flooded' starting technique - choke fully in, foot to floor, THEN crank it over. If that sorts it every time, you're most likely getting fuel draining into (and pooling in) the inlet manifold.
The other likely cause is a weak spark, so it could be worth pulling the coil off the Renix unit and cleaning up the contacts...and changing the plugs/leads/cap/rotor if they're old. It cost me £25 to do the whole lot on Nessy (a 1.4).
When this is happening if you take the air filter off you can often see petrol dripping in the carb when the neinge is off. My slaoon is doing this. Not bithered about that as if I keep it I will be gassing it of course.
Yeah, if that is it you've been lucky The other things I'd look at if you havn't had it long are the state of the rotor arm and dizzy cap, and also to see if your carb is a solex (it should be, but some were replaced) or a weber. Have a nose at the drivers side of the carb, under the air filter, if there are two wires going to it (blue with red stripe) then it'll be the solex.
The weber doesn't have a fuel cut off valve, which after lots of thinking, is the only thing I can come up with as to why mine wouldn't warm start (the only way it would was to use the "flooded" start technique James says)
