Hello Rover-heads!
Wouldn't you know it? Fresh off spending $800 and two weeks installing interior parts on the Landy, I go for a celebratory drive and my car is possessed. It stalls out and dies...and keeps dieing. The weekend's over, so it'll have to wait. But maybe you fine folks may have some ideas.
The symptoms:
* Starts perfect, when sitting. Starts within 1-2 seconds.
* Won't accept gas until warm...gurgles and chokes on more gas pedal. Choke works great, and idle raises smoothly.
* Can't pull away in first unless I am at about 2000rpm, and feels like it wants to stall unless I really gas it and grind the clutch, or it will stall.
* If I keep it in lower gears too much (high rev)Rev, it will faulter and stall.
* Then it won't start up for 2-5 minutes. If I crank the motor, no amount of cranking will start it. I have to wait.
* Strong smell of gasoline. I feel like it's flooded. If I let it sit and evaporate for 2 minutes, it starts again.
* It used to only happen intermittently. But today, it did this cycle about 6 times as I limped back home. Starts. Runs for 2 minutes. Stalls. Won't start for 2 minutes. Starts again. Repeat.
Air, Fuel, Spark.
I got all three. Then I don't.I think the first two are okay(I smell gas). So, I'm suspecting spark? For a while, I thought it might be vapor lock? But I got that little spacer between the intake and the carb(phenolic block?), and the car was kind of cold...maybe 7 minutes from cold start.
I suspect the Land Rover needs some cash burned as an offering to excorcise these demons.
Hit me with your ideas. I'm stumped(for now).
Wouldn't you know it? Fresh off spending $800 and two weeks installing interior parts on the Landy, I go for a celebratory drive and my car is possessed. It stalls out and dies...and keeps dieing. The weekend's over, so it'll have to wait. But maybe you fine folks may have some ideas.
The symptoms:
* Starts perfect, when sitting. Starts within 1-2 seconds.
* Won't accept gas until warm...gurgles and chokes on more gas pedal. Choke works great, and idle raises smoothly.
* Can't pull away in first unless I am at about 2000rpm, and feels like it wants to stall unless I really gas it and grind the clutch, or it will stall.
* If I keep it in lower gears too much (high rev)Rev, it will faulter and stall.
* Then it won't start up for 2-5 minutes. If I crank the motor, no amount of cranking will start it. I have to wait.
* Strong smell of gasoline. I feel like it's flooded. If I let it sit and evaporate for 2 minutes, it starts again.
* It used to only happen intermittently. But today, it did this cycle about 6 times as I limped back home. Starts. Runs for 2 minutes. Stalls. Won't start for 2 minutes. Starts again. Repeat.
Air, Fuel, Spark.
I got all three. Then I don't.I think the first two are okay(I smell gas). So, I'm suspecting spark? For a while, I thought it might be vapor lock? But I got that little spacer between the intake and the carb(phenolic block?), and the car was kind of cold...maybe 7 minutes from cold start.
I suspect the Land Rover needs some cash burned as an offering to excorcise these demons.
Hit me with your ideas. I'm stumped(for now).
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