This may be a silly suggestion but have you checked the fuel supply? I recall a couple of similar situations which were eventually solved by cleaning out an inline fuel filer that had become clogged causing intermittent fuel supply.
Apologies if you have already covered this. AJ -------------------------------------------- On Wed, 29/3/17, QM editor <[email protected]> wrote: Subject: [Quantum Owners] Re: 2+2 distributor To: "Quantum Owners Group" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, 29 March, 2017, 23:19 Thanks everyone for your replies. I suspected that the slightly different part numbers might be due to slightly different internall arrangements! The car started spluttering while cold, i.e. after only a few miles. Sometimes it would stop as though the handbrake had been violently applied. But then would start again. Finally, on my way to a QOC committee meeting (ironically!) it stopped and would not start. A few hours later after the meeting the car started immediately and drove home, about 6 miles from where it had stopped with no problem at all. This is when I decided to replace everything, except the distributor itself. So the fault is most certainly not a loose connection, faulty HT leads, faulty coil, faulty distributor cap, faulty ignition module, faulty plugs or rotor arm as all were replaced with new. From then on the car will not start at all and is still in the garage. There is a spark at the plugs and from time to time while turning over the engine it will fire, or backfire just the once. Both engineers who looked at the car agreed that the problem is timing. I've tried rotating the distributor through the full range from fully clockwise to fully anti-clockwise but that makes no difference. I've got a month to solve this - I WILL be at Stoneleigh in this car!!! A possible next step is to put the originals back and see if it starts. If it does I can replace each old item with the new one until it no longer starts. That would tell me I have the wrong new part! The distributor is not the type with a long shaft and a gear at the end. It's the other type, no shaft but 'dogs' (I think that's what they're called) to connect to the engine, pic attached. Mike On Saturday, March 25, 2017 at 11:02:56 AM UTC, QM editor wrote: > > My 2+2 has a 1.6 CVH engine from an XR2. Intermittently it will stop and > usually start again running normally. A bit annoying! I've been told by a > Ford trained mechanic that the distributor in the Fiesta was unreliable and > there were many failures even in cars less than three years old. Does > anyone know of this? From one website I discovered that the correct > distributor is a Bosch type 0 237 521 019 but I can't find one of those. > The Haines manual says Bosch or Lucas but gives no part number.. Nearest I > found was type 0 237 601 001, Ford part number 84SF 12100 FA. > > Has anyone had a distributor problem with this engine, and what type did > they use to replace it? It might be that the two types I've mentioned are > effectively identical or there might be sufficient difference that while > the one I can find will physically fit it won't work properly or even at > all! Advice please so I can get going again! > > Many thanks, Mike > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Quantum Owners Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/quantumowners?hl=en IMPORTANT NOTE: All information presented herewith is provided on an "As Is" basis, without warranty or the implication thereof. 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