Getting an early 220 Turbo Coupe back on the road

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Re: Getting an early 220 Turbo Coupe back on the road

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I think the grin says it all :thumbup1

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BOOOOSSSTTT Giggles :laughing2
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Top Job so far, looked at home on the track on Sunday, it did want to go faster I'm sure,..
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Despite all the frustrating starting problems - see other thread - I've been out and about on several shakedown runs.

I went to Caffine and Machine yesterday and had to take this photo :cool

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No update for quite a while, as I've had a Coupe that didn't want to run... :sad

Last September, it started to seem to lose boost and over a week of trying to work out what was wrong, nothing was doing any good. In fact, it steadily deteriorated to the point that it was sounding like a bag of nails.

So Craig came down with his truck and took it back up to Stalybridge. It didn't take him long to diagnose a collapsed catalyst - the only part of the system not renewed :slapme

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With a few other jobs, such as sorting the intermittent front wipers, it was agreed that he'd keep it 'till the spring and I SORN'ed the car. With the unfortunate closure of RoverRevivalRestorations, I went to get the car back in March but it then wouldn't start, so I had to get it back home on the back of another transporter.

Once back here, I could see that it had good sparks and smell of fuel in exhaust, which resulted in the occasional 'cough' but no more. This got me thinking that it was probably ecu or sensor related.

Luckily Richard Jessett ( :angel ) is pretty handy with T4 Testbook diagnostics and so we arranged for him to drop by after POL last weekend, which turned out to be 8~10pm! That didn't show anything wrong with either the ECU or any of the sensors but we did see that the throttle position sensor connector was a bit dodgy and 2 pins were backing out. Pushing them back in made no difference either though...

Still depressed, I left it a week but over the weekend I wiped the soot off the spark plugs and tried again and it started!

It ran like a bag of nails again, wouldn't rev above 1200 and sounded very much like it did before with the blocked exhaust, so I was thinking that a piece of the collapsed cat block might have made its way down the exhaust and blocked it again. I sept on it, thinking about loosening the joints before and after the cat to work out where the blockage might be :mouthshut .

Before doing all that I started it again, leaving it running for a couple of minutes and it sounded marginally better, so I chanced a trip to the local petrol station for a tankful of E5, in case the fuel was stale from last Sept.

By the time I'd driven the 1/2 mile there, it was sounding better still. So, I went for a drive and drove 25 miles, as it was running well 😎

Summary: the tappets had bled down and just needed pumping up! :D

I am mightily relieved as, hopefully, I can now start enjoying the car and sorting out all the other minor things :thumbup1

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That's great news John. Looking forward to seeing you out and about in it. Enjoy, I know I am.
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StubbornPatriot wrote: Mon Apr 24, 2023 7:56 am That's great news John. Looking forward to seeing you out and about in it. Enjoy, I know I am.

I am already :cool

One of the first jobs is to fix this bent fuel pipe, which is weeping...

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Does have anyone have a good spare please? They're £60 at Rimmers!

It should look more like this

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Also, does anyone have a part number for the joining flexible hose please? I can't find it on EPCs I have access to.
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Adaptor assembly-filter to feed - WKB10015 - I've got a brand new one you can have. When my GTi was recommissioned the old one broke when the mechanic was removing it. I ordered one from an Ebay seller and they sent 2, even though I only paid for 1. I did ask if the seller wanted me to send the extra one back but they never replied. I tried at least to do the right thing. It's yours if you want it but I might take a day or two to find it as the house is still in quite a bit of chaos.
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StubbornPatriot wrote: Mon Apr 24, 2023 3:12 pm Adaptor assembly-filter to feed - WKB10015 - I've got a brand new one you can have... It's yours if you want it
Yes pls. No rush :cool
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I wish I knew what “the tappets had bled down” meant, but I’m glad you got to the bottom of it! :D
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