Thijs Leuven
Active Member
Hi guys!
Last weekend my Rover stalled on me... Had driven for about 10kms without any problems, when the car suddenly died. No spluttering or anything, just gone at once. This happened to me some 4-5 times earlier as well, but at those times the car started right up again! This time I wasn't so lucky.
Checked the car and found that my HT lead had spark, but I didn't have any spark at the plugs. Called the road service, which came by and diagnosed a possibly faulty rotor. Since that's an easy fix, I had them tow the car back home. I ordered a new rotor, but... nothing! Spark at the HT lead, but nothing beyond that.
My car has the following setup. 4.6L V8 out of a Range Rover with a Lumenition Optronic ignition. I recently changed the distributor cap, apart from that the rotor and the chopper of the lumenition are new. I ordered two new rotors and have tried both. I tried different spark plugs, and different spark plug leads...
I called the company that delivered the rotor etc (Smink, P6 specialist in The Netherlands) and discussed the case. He thought it might be the distributor cap, even though it's essentially new. He doesn't suspect the Lumenition power module, because I have a spark at the HT lead. He couldn't help me any further over the phone, which I fully understand.
I will order a new distributor cap (bummer that regular shops are closed now) because it won't hurt having a spare and they're cheap. If that doesn't fix the problem, is there anyone out there with some other ideas?
Last weekend my Rover stalled on me... Had driven for about 10kms without any problems, when the car suddenly died. No spluttering or anything, just gone at once. This happened to me some 4-5 times earlier as well, but at those times the car started right up again! This time I wasn't so lucky.
Checked the car and found that my HT lead had spark, but I didn't have any spark at the plugs. Called the road service, which came by and diagnosed a possibly faulty rotor. Since that's an easy fix, I had them tow the car back home. I ordered a new rotor, but... nothing! Spark at the HT lead, but nothing beyond that.
My car has the following setup. 4.6L V8 out of a Range Rover with a Lumenition Optronic ignition. I recently changed the distributor cap, apart from that the rotor and the chopper of the lumenition are new. I ordered two new rotors and have tried both. I tried different spark plugs, and different spark plug leads...
I called the company that delivered the rotor etc (Smink, P6 specialist in The Netherlands) and discussed the case. He thought it might be the distributor cap, even though it's essentially new. He doesn't suspect the Lumenition power module, because I have a spark at the HT lead. He couldn't help me any further over the phone, which I fully understand.
I will order a new distributor cap (bummer that regular shops are closed now) because it won't hurt having a spare and they're cheap. If that doesn't fix the problem, is there anyone out there with some other ideas?