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Subject: Fixed... sort of...
From: James Carruthers <j.carruthers@rave.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 10:37:53 +0100
Well, the problem with my car is fixed.

All I did last night was undo the screws on the top of the float chamber -
lift off the top - wiggle the plastic thing - and put it back on. She goes!

So I drove to work today, and everything was going fine. Can you guess there
is a "but" coming? But....

I decided to get happy with a roundabout - whoosh she flies alright -
however by the time I get to change up to second - she does what she did on
Monday... aha ha! I now know it was a fuel starvation problem - so I pull
the choke - and like Michael Knight! I have turbo boost! Anyway - so its
running like it should - so I push the choke back in to see what happens -
weirdly - its now fixed again. So I get to work no problem.

Anyone got any ideas what this is?

It seems that - basically when the revs get a little too high - maybe
4500-5000 - it then starts to starve the engine of fuel - doesn't pull -
then when I pull the choke - it bursts in to life - and then when I push it
back in - it starts working again.

At least I know how to solve this problem now, but I am curious why it would
do this - so I can fix it - because something must be wrong.






James


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