Right... So I set out pick my girlfriend up from work 10 miles away. The cars jerky as hell misfiring really badly, which it does sometimes for the first minute or so when it's cold/wet.
Tonight it was worse than usual, and as I was going up a steep hill a couple of miles into the journey the revs fell through the floor, dropped to 2nd, hit the gas, nothing, dropped to 1st, hit the gas nothing but splutters. At this point I'm on sharp blind bend, on an icy road in fog - ****!
It came within a whisker of stalling and I just about managed to creep it round and up, got on the flat and the misfiring was awful, throwing me about. I pulled into a lay-by, and rang my girlfriend, swiftly followed by the RAC.
The car started fine, and misfired a little when revving in neutral, but the second I tried to drive it, it would jerk around and there was no power what-so-ever. So I sat in there listening to music and reading the Haynes manual.
Some hour and a half later a recovery truck turns up. The engine had warmed up a little and ran slightly better but it was still impossible to drive properly. He fiddled round with the distributor and whatnot, and nothing really seemed to be helping. I told him I had just replaced spark plugs, leads, dizzy cap and rotor arm the day before yesterday so it may be linked. He said it's worth checking the amplifier module, giving the carburetter a good clean and treating the petrol.
Basically, he doesn't know. Driving back it wasn't much better, it was drivable but only just. There's the worst sound coming from the back of the exhaust as well. You only hear it when I'm in gear and driving. If I have my foot on the clutch and match the revs it disappears, the second I bring the clutch back up it starts. Sounds like something rattling around in the back box, or a tiny hole blowing. I have a performance exhaust and after it's been driving, i.e. when I finally got home, it was so loud!!
Urg. This car is killing me. Got the MOT before Christmas as well!
Tonight it was worse than usual, and as I was going up a steep hill a couple of miles into the journey the revs fell through the floor, dropped to 2nd, hit the gas, nothing, dropped to 1st, hit the gas nothing but splutters. At this point I'm on sharp blind bend, on an icy road in fog - ****!
It came within a whisker of stalling and I just about managed to creep it round and up, got on the flat and the misfiring was awful, throwing me about. I pulled into a lay-by, and rang my girlfriend, swiftly followed by the RAC.
The car started fine, and misfired a little when revving in neutral, but the second I tried to drive it, it would jerk around and there was no power what-so-ever. So I sat in there listening to music and reading the Haynes manual.
Some hour and a half later a recovery truck turns up. The engine had warmed up a little and ran slightly better but it was still impossible to drive properly. He fiddled round with the distributor and whatnot, and nothing really seemed to be helping. I told him I had just replaced spark plugs, leads, dizzy cap and rotor arm the day before yesterday so it may be linked. He said it's worth checking the amplifier module, giving the carburetter a good clean and treating the petrol.
Basically, he doesn't know. Driving back it wasn't much better, it was drivable but only just. There's the worst sound coming from the back of the exhaust as well. You only hear it when I'm in gear and driving. If I have my foot on the clutch and match the revs it disappears, the second I bring the clutch back up it starts. Sounds like something rattling around in the back box, or a tiny hole blowing. I have a performance exhaust and after it's been driving, i.e. when I finally got home, it was so loud!!
Urg. This car is killing me. Got the MOT before Christmas as well!
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