This is a fairly long post... Sorry for the length and possible lack of interest. lol.

Well at the moment I am stuck with this to drive...


My daily driver (77 clubman) started coughing and spluttering this morning after runnning beatifully all day yesterday. I thought nothing of it at first, putting it down to the car being cold. However, after about an hour of the car stalling every time I slowed down at an intersection or slow down at all, I took it to my dad who is a mechanic and has done most of the work on the car. He adjested the carby, cleaned the fuel line, etc (We were fiddling for around 2-3 hours).

But for some reason the carby seems to be deprived of fuel when revs get low and after all that time and all that fiddling nothing to do with that had changed. If anything, it had become worse.

A more clear description of the problem is that in first and second gear in low revs the car slows or stops and even with a foot on the accelerator the engine either cuts out completely or just splutters but the car still doesnt move or struggles to.

So the reason I'm driving that sexy van is because dad made me leave the car in the work-shed so he and his mate can try and fix it when they get a chance...

Does anyone here have any ideas?

Fuel pump diaphragm cactus?

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If its starving fuel it "should" be worse up the rev range not lower down (should being the operative word, I know silly things happen though). Is it flooding, thus running richer at low revs.

Are you 100% sure its a fuel problem?

We used to get similar with mid 80's Civic's. Hard to start, rotten at low revs but fine up high. Caused by crook Rotor Buttons, had many an argument over this one as it doesnt make sense.

It just seems like it has to be a fuel problem. All the problems seem to point in that direction. I just remembered also that at one point the 'fuel low' light came on but the needle was still well above the red area on the gauge...
Its still with dad and he hasnt contacted me so I take it he hasn't figured anything out yet.

Can you please check two things...Fuel filter..and your Earth on the Engine to Inner gaurd driverside...clean the connections

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I can't but I can get dad to because he has the car.

My car had the exact same symptoms. Turned out to be a mixture of a non-working dashpot in one of the carbies and the carbie oil was far too thick (this was done by a mechanic that didn't know wtf)

Car is fixed. Turns out that there was no fuel filter on the car and therefore the carby was full of crap. Cleaned it out and put a fuel filter on... All good now.
Thanks for your thoughts guys.

Noice

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