Think my 13b has gone pop in the 1st gen !

shaunwil · September 26, 2008, 11:06:54 PM

Got near home and when I took foot off the throttle pedal the engine died. Can\'t get it to start up again !! Walked it home with the help of some nice passerbys.

Not sure if it is that but I have the sinking feeling that it is pooped. Changed the front oil seal over about 8 weeks ago and I\'m not sure if I\'ve messed up the end float.

Can anyone recommend a good place to get a TII bare block ? May need one very soon as its my daily driver :Hammer

Cheers

Shaun

gsb876 · September 26, 2008, 11:11:29 PM

bad luck there Shaun,

Hope you get it sorted quickly bud :wiggle

Brett · September 26, 2008, 11:36:45 PM

I thought you were running an EGi lump?

shaunwil · September 27, 2008, 07:28:43 AM

Yep its an EGI engine. Will have a proper look today. Hopefully the engines fine and its something wrong with the gas supply.

I\'ll know better this afternoon !

Shaun

Prof · September 27, 2008, 08:26:48 AM

Fingers crossed mate

mpk490p · September 27, 2008, 09:33:14 AM

hopefully its something simple (gas in the tank? LOL)
i have decided not to drive mine with all these rotors going pop!
Mark

shaunwil · September 27, 2008, 09:38:15 AM

Could be the solenoid or blocked filter. It does get driven quite hard. It\'ll be back in one piece very quick :Giggle

Shaun

grinder · September 27, 2008, 10:01:13 AM

ekk thats not good buddy

hope its something and nothing

if you need parts - we can always strip the 13b lump that i have ?

David Nock (RIP) · September 27, 2008, 12:02:47 PM

Best of luck with it Shaun.

shaunwil · September 27, 2008, 02:54:57 PM

Well after About 3hrs of tinkering its running again

When I setup the gas carb I had added some foam strips to improve the seal on the filter. It seems that last night it was sucked into the workings of the carb. When you swap to petrol it lifts the middle bit up and stops the carb venturi from sucking. The foam bit got wedged in this bit and ruin the vacuum on the venturi !

Not sure if its firing on all the plugs either and doesn\'t seem to want to tick over. Tried to adjust it but didn\'t want to play. Leading firing fine, but trailing arn\'t

Will get all my filters changed and get it booked back in for a dyno session and checkup.

Engine started up from hot while trying to sort out the tick over and showed good compression when I took the trailing plug out, 3 good poofs for front and rear !

Thankfully it was something simple

Shaun

grinder · September 27, 2008, 11:26:14 PM

you cant beat a simple fix matey

i hope this is the end of the issue for you

shaunwil · September 28, 2008, 10:48:04 AM

Its always the last thing you check :Giggle

We had even dragged it to the petrol station and filled the gas tank :Hammer

The system does need a service and some fresh filters. Done about 10k miles since this time last year !

Shaun

marcusd666 · September 30, 2008, 07:35:08 PM

nice to see you got running mate with a simply fix

shaunwil · September 30, 2008, 10:41:10 PM

Er, not completely :Hammer

Its not wanting to Idle when I come to a stop now. It just dies. Turn the key and when warm it ticks over. Rev engine and when it drops down to idle it dies. Makes for some interesting driving !

Any ideas

? I\'m not sure if one of my ignitors isn\'t firing.

Shaun

shaunwil · October 12, 2008, 01:23:16 PM

Just a Quicky update

Made up the test rig to check my J-109 pickups and they all tested good. Cleaned up and re pasted them to the dizzy. Swapped the Spark plug leads over for some ones ordered off Rock auto ($15 for 7mm leads, plus $35 for postage !) and it seems to be ticking over when I let off the loud pedal again

Just need to work out why my headlights aren\'t going down now :Giggle Been doing it on and off since owning the car ! Could do with doing the relay trick as well to improve the headlights !

Cheers

Shaun