The Wife has a 1.2 Nova - carb, manual choke - which plays up every few days with low speed misfire, poor power etc. Have gradually replaced distributor, cap, rotor arm, leads, plugs and coil and every time I do something the fault goes away for a while! Wife now demanding new motor! Anyone have any suggestions coz things are desperate!
TIA
LJ.
Did you check the spark plug gap. If you didnt check a manual/haynes for gap. If they are set right, close the gap a bit to next thou.
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You haven't bought the bits from Halfords have you? I bought a set of HT leads, Dizzy cap and rotor arm last weekend for my Saab from there. They were s**te. Made the car run terribly. I only put them on because the old ones looked worn. I took them back and got them refunded..
Sounds more like a fuel problem though TBH. Have you tried cleaning the carb out?
Mike
Cleaned the carb out last night - didn't seem to cure anything at first but I thrashed it around the block a couple of times and it then ran o.k! Better half is out in it today so fingers crossed!
LJ
They have a small cone filter in the carb where the fuel line goes into it that blocks up. Take off the fuel line, insert a 3" screw into the pipe and once you feel a little resistance give the screw a few turns then pull it out with the cone now attached.
Mine used to suffer from this.
It had the Pierburg carb - which is apparently a bit of a donkey, with no/poor spares support.
Changing to a proper Weber card sorted it for £150ish.
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