ECR Posted May 4, 2006 Share Posted May 4, 2006 To all those who offered words of wisdom and encouragement during my (unsucessful) search for my missing two cylinders at Cadwell. A particular thanks to Martin and Viv who were golden throughout the two days, even disassembling their car to enable me to swap components. I also had great service from all at McMillan Motorsport who dropped everything on Wednesday morning to try to get me running (we believed that they had found the problem untill we tried it under load on the track). Despite a very tiring and frustrating two days I wouldn't have missed being reminded how nice 7 people can be .. Thanks also to all those that offered me drives of their cars, Delbert, Keith J,and Danny spring to mind and quite a few others whom I can't quite remember now ( I had a lot going on !) I will let you know when I find the cause of the problem. Roger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mav Posted May 4, 2006 Share Posted May 4, 2006 Roger - No trouble at all. It makes a rare change for us to be able to help you... I hope you find it soon, I'm as confused as you on this one... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Mav Posted May 4, 2006 Share Posted May 4, 2006 As Mav said we were both more than happy to help out, just a shame it didn't work ☹️ Please let us know about any progress you make in getting it back on track Viv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted May 4, 2006 Share Posted May 4, 2006 Roger, Sorry to hear you weren't able to get it up and running. I would loved to have helped but that electrical stuff is beyond me MikeW Mega Grad Race No 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dannyboy Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 Was a pleasure to at least attempt to help you out Roger! Shame my father was as flummoxed as you too! Best of luck with solving the bloody problem!! Dannyboy removing the gaffer tape Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECR Posted May 5, 2006 Author Share Posted May 5, 2006 Well... I worked on it most of the day putting it back into the condition I started with. The problem was still there. So I cut the lawn .... When I got back to the car I decided to test the wiring entering the low tension plug to the coil. I tugged on all three wires and the last one pulled out of the plug. This means that the locking tang had not engaged, with the possibility that the feed wire to the coil was just resting on the contact. I bent the tang out and refitted the plug. The engine immediately sounded a lot happier and revved freely. When I inspected the plugs they all looked very similar too. I feel that this might be the solution but I need to test it under load before I break open the Vimto. Watch this space ... Roger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mav Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 come to think of it we didn't recheck that on Thursday... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECR Posted May 11, 2006 Author Share Posted May 11, 2006 Well my caution proved well founded. Despite tidying the wiring, the problem was still there on Tuesday (thanks to the Peugeot club for a few test laps at Curborough). I was nearly out of ideas so I rang the Doctor. Alex arrived at 9:00 on Wednesday night and we then started from scratch. Nothing realy turned up till I started to replace no 3 injector. On removing the injector I noted a small piece of debris on the tip. Further examination by Alex (eagle eyes Wong) revealed a very dirty basket prefilter. We removed one of Alex's injectors and fitted it at no 3 in my car. The engine immediately sounded much better. We then investigated the other 3 injectors. All of them were showing signs of dirty prefilters. As it was past midnight at this stage we finished for the night. The following day I took the injectors to my local Bosch agent and had them cleaned and fitted new prefilters. The car sounded really crisp. Today (Thursday) I took the car to Curborough to try it out (Many thanks to the Warwickshire chapter of the WSCC for allowing me to join them for a few laps). Problem solved ! I think that I must have had a tank full of dirty fuel on my way to Cadwell. At low revs in the paddock the fuel flow was such that it could pass through the filters. At higher flows on the circuit the crud was pulled into the gauze gradualy blocking off the flow. When I got back to the paddock the crud floated away from the gauze and the problem was not so bad. The difficulty was that different filters/injectors became blocked/cleared each time I went out so it was hard work trying to isolate the problem. Vimto now open ! Thanks Alex ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Mav Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 Hoorah, so pleased you have finally got it up an running. See you at a track day soon 😬 Viv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mav Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 Yay. See you at Oulton for that passenger ride then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECR Posted May 11, 2006 Author Share Posted May 11, 2006 A pleasure Mav ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Wong1697456877 Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 It was nice to help you to get your car working for once, rather than the other way around! Normality resumes quickly though. Thanks for all the help getting VDU back into running order! Edited by - Alex Wong on 16 May 2006 11:04:40 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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