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Title: Engine losing power under load Post by: graham_fuller on July 01, 2005, 08:49:34 PM My new engine has developed a major loss of power which I think is electrical.Just wondered what everyone else thought. I was driving it last night (yes in the pouring rain) when it developed a major loss of power at low speed. This continued until I finally stalled the car once I restarted it it was fine.
So I am a little confused. Any ideas? Cheers, Graham Title: Re: Engine losing power under load Post by: smithy on July 01, 2005, 10:55:15 PM hi graham, have you had a look at your coil?
i had a similar problem with an old EH after spending money getting carb rebuilt, tuning, etc, turned out to be a faulty coil. dean Title: Re: Engine losing power under load Post by: graham_fuller on July 01, 2005, 11:05:15 PM Hi Dean,
Is there a method of checking the coil and can it be an intermitant thing? Cheers, Graham Title: Re: Engine losing power under load Post by: craiga on July 01, 2005, 11:08:39 PM Graham,
If it happened in the wet it is more than likely a tracking problem whereby the secondary ignition circuit (coil/cap/leads/plugs) was arcing through carbon or moisture to ground. This is commonly either a crack in the dizzy cap, or in the coil tower. It could be lots of things, but look here first. Good Luck, Craig. Title: Re: Engine losing power under load Post by: FC58q on July 02, 2005, 04:33:46 AM Hi Graham
you can check the tracking in the dark makes it easyer, I had a seized advance and retard weights in the dizzy on my p/van hope this helps Ray :) |