After the trilas & tribulations of getting my car through its MOT, I went to the garage to fill up with fuel last night. It wasn't especially low, and I hadn't pulled the reserve. After I filled up, the engine wouldn't start, wouldn't even fire. The garage is about 2 miles from my house, and although I had pushed the choke in, it wasn't overly warm, about 1/3 of the way up on the temp gauge. Anyway, I eventually had to push the car off the pump, and flattened the battery trying to start it. When the other half turned up with the jump leads, we eventually got it running but only after a long crank with my foot hard on the accelerator. The symptoms are as follows:
1: Starts ok cold with choke, and starts ok warm without choke, although it usually requires a bit of cranking when warm.
2: When the car is in between Cold & Warm, it will not always restart after being switched off
3: Not overly smelling of petrol when this happens, and was running fine before being switched off
Car is a 10.5:1 engine, with HS6's, pertronix ignitor II and Flamethrower II coil.
I do have a HIF6 manifold & carbs at home. Is it worth refurbing this and fitting it? Do HIFs suffer less with vapourlock, as this has been an issue on HS6's in extremely hot weather.
Car could probably use a tune up, so will be looking at plugs etc in the next couple of days.
Anything obvious? It does sound like its getting flooded.
1: Starts ok cold with choke, and starts ok warm without choke, although it usually requires a bit of cranking when warm.
2: When the car is in between Cold & Warm, it will not always restart after being switched off
3: Not overly smelling of petrol when this happens, and was running fine before being switched off
Car is a 10.5:1 engine, with HS6's, pertronix ignitor II and Flamethrower II coil.
I do have a HIF6 manifold & carbs at home. Is it worth refurbing this and fitting it? Do HIFs suffer less with vapourlock, as this has been an issue on HS6's in extremely hot weather.
Car could probably use a tune up, so will be looking at plugs etc in the next couple of days.
Anything obvious? It does sound like its getting flooded.