Its Started!

Polo_joe · Post by **Polo_joe** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 10:36 pm

The Carb-icing a mean! war drivin work last week n car cut out. thought it war summit else bt no i think its the carb. pissed off lol. altho i think my battery may need replacin. wen i have the heater on full blast the car cvuts out!! anyone had this prob???

polo-vixen · Post by **polo-vixen** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 10:51 pm

with the carb icing have u got ya hot air duct pipe in place, as i took my off and the car was acting like she was gonna die, and i had to fight to keep her going!

Polo_joe · Post by **Polo_joe** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 6:34 pm

not sure its too cold to ava look!! al ava look on me dinner tomorrow. i reckon it is tho yer. is there nout that can b done??? cant b breakin down n bein late fer new job

polo-vixen · Post by **polo-vixen** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 9:10 pm

yea just make sure that the hot air duct is in place, it only a few quid from gsf if u have it missing!

But that is a sign that ya carb is f****d, so i would just put that bk in place and it should be all ok, its the fing that run off the ehaust manifold to the air feed bit on the side of the dustbin lid as i call it!

Also try putting in some bp ultimate petrol and some carb cleaner, and giving it a good run!

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 11:58 pm

put some gloves and a longcoat on, too ... running the heater on full has a similar effect to putting 20-30mph through the radiator with the thermostat wide open ... and i can tell you first hand how drastically that can cut down the engine heat in cold weather (worse still when you do both at the same time and end up in 2nd trying to keep yourself and the engine warm at once - so much for internal combustion engines wasting 60% of their fuel as heat??)

oh yeah, check that your thermo isnt jammed, too

shouldnt take more than five minutes of idling for the temperature needle to start moving in the current weather, and it should after 10-15 enter into the 90c-fan-85c-off-90c... cycle. if it can only be prompted to run the fan if you sit in tescos car park with the throttle jammed open to about 4000rpm in neutral, then you've got a problem.

also, more crucially, make sure the hot air pipe is in place and jam the hot/cold mixer control if necessary (or put a balled up sock in the cold intake horn) ... might make you down on peak power a bit, but at least it will keep running.

remind me, does the mk2 have an inlet heater or is that just a mk3 thang? if it does then might be worth your while figuring out if that works (somehow)?