Intermittent Cutting Out: K series

[Mick Day]

So....after a very long journey that started in 2010 it's finally, hopefully been solved. 

So as the title says. Engine dies but restarts after 20 or so seconds. So intermittent it would go years between episodes.

Fast forward to 2020 & it gets worse making the car undriveable. Owing to other life things getting in the way it just languished in the garage. In the mean time: new coil, TPS, crank sensor, plugs, distributor cap, rotor arm, ECU checked over etc & no it wasn't fixed.

So early this year it went off for a holiday at PGM. Fuel pressure very low ( yes it didn't start too well so....?).

Tank & pump out. The pump gasket had disintegrated & there was so much gunk around the pump inlet it's not surprising it was difficult to start! Was this the cause?

So tank was cleaned, new pump, gasket & filter made it start so much better.

Weather so unfriendly it took a while to really test it &.............no it hadn't cured the cut out problem. This time it wouldn't restart & there was no spark..

At last something other than intermittent.

Back to Andy & after a bit of fiddling with the wiring loom the crank sensor wiring was renewed. Result engine fired 1st time & so far it keeps going!

Those around 24 years ago may remember my engine upgrade: at that time a lot of work was done on the engine loom & it was the multiple connections that eventually failed.

So thumbs up to Andy & gang at PGM.

[Ainsley]

Good result - finally.  Suns out so you need to go out 🙂

[pgm]

Hopefully it is finally sorted! Don't forget to pop down with it on our Open Day! Best wishes the PGM team!

[Mick Day]

Yep fingers crossed,.... 28th July is in the diary!

[Mick Day]

....and it survived a 1hr blat yesterday so feeling very positive!