A fuel blockage was where my questions were heading as well.
A lot of dirt in the fuel line can pile up against the fuel filter when the
engine is running but then fall away when it stops, allowing the engine to
start again for a bit.
Is there an inline filter in the fuel supply to the carb ?
Jim
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From: ADRIAN HOPKINS
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2017 8:29 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Quantum Owners] Re: 2+2 distributor
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
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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
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