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1stpop
Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 109
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Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 6:54 pm Post subject: Loss of power |
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Can anyone give me any advice with the following problem?
I have just finished doing a 12v conversion on my Ford 103E pop, everything has gone well and I've had the car running very well.... then.... all of a sudden the car starts well and ticks over without a problem but every so often when you try to accelerate the car loses power and if pushed will stop completely. Its got me stumped. I've checked all the usual suspects: points, carb, all electrics, fuel pump etc. and cant find a problem? It also has started back-firing a lot when you try to accelerate (if it manages to pick up).
has anyone got a suggestion? |
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Greeney in France
Joined: 06 Mar 2008 Posts: 1173 Location: Limousin area of France
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Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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Coil?
Similar related problems occur when the coil is creating a weak spark often gets worse when engine gets warm _________________ www.OldFrenchCars.com
We do these things not to escape life but to prevent life escaping us |
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pigtin
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 1879 Location: Herne Bay
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Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 7:46 pm Post subject: |
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Sounds like coil to me, as it heats up it shorts internally but is ok when it cools again. A manifold leak in the wiper pipe (if fitted) can also cause similar problems.
Er! Greeney, about this hamster... it was actually the French taunting the English. In English. |
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Greeney in France
Joined: 06 Mar 2008 Posts: 1173 Location: Limousin area of France
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Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 8:07 pm Post subject: |
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I Know!! I was just turning it around to be ironic
sounds better in French _________________ www.OldFrenchCars.com
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Rick Site Admin
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22451 Location: UK
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pigtin
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 1879 Location: Herne Bay
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Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 8:19 pm Post subject: |
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Historical correctness is something we should all strive for, what about all that crap our history teachers poisoned our minds with? be careful Greeney we may have future generations invading France, egged on by some future Tony Blair as a result of your irony. 'The Hamster conflict' could lay waste to most of Northern France. and parts of Hastings, in times to come.
Sorry 1stpop, Have you had any luck yet? |
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Greeney in France
Joined: 06 Mar 2008 Posts: 1173 Location: Limousin area of France
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Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may be detailed with the most minute exactness, and yet the narrative, taken as a whole, may be unmeaning or untrue. One must seek to imbue oneself with the life and spirit of the time. One must study events in their bearings near and remote; in the character, habits, and manners of those who took part in them. One must be, as it were, a sharer or a spectator of the action he describes to be a true historian _________________ www.OldFrenchCars.com
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pigtin
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 1879 Location: Herne Bay
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Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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Eh? |
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1stpop
Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 109
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Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 11:10 pm Post subject: |
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Just went out (in the rain) and checked the wipers!!! the pipe from the engine has a hole in it!!!!! problem solved... Once again thanks to you all. |
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Old-Nail
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 853
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Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 9:27 am Post subject: |
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Greeney in France wrote: |
Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may be detailed with the most minute exactness, and yet the narrative, taken as a whole, may be unmeaning or untrue. One must seek to imbue oneself with the life and spirit of the time. One must study events in their bearings near and remote; in the character, habits, and manners of those who took part in them. One must be, as it were, a sharer or a spectator of the action he describes to be a true historian |
I argued this point successfully during my degree course in Philosophy/Political theory.
Since WWII Germany has disowned it's fallen soldiers and makes little attempt to recover their bodies and give them a decent burial.
My contention was that firstly German soldiers were conscripts from 1935 and as such had little choice about having to go to war, and secondly the ones that were 'Nazi's' had become so after witnessing the greatest turnaround in a country's fortunes ever known, brought about by nationalsozialismus.
I have often thought that without the benefit of hindsight, and subject only to the conditions and knowledge of the day, many of us would have embraced fascism in Germany in the 1930's, just as we may also have supported Communism in the Russia of 1917, or the revolution in France in the 1790's.
Judging History from the perspective of 70 years is like looking at it down the wrong end of a telescope...or in short "You just had to be there!" |
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pigtin
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 1879 Location: Herne Bay
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Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 11:09 am Post subject: |
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Back to the original thread... wasn't it HENRY FORD that said "History is bunk!"
I fear we will never learn the truth about current events in our own lifetimes. Unless we are actually living them first hand:? |
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ukdave2002
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4105 Location: South Cheshire
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Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 12:13 pm Post subject: |
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I wonder if history forum threads ever stray in to fixing old motors?
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Greeney in France
Joined: 06 Mar 2008 Posts: 1173 Location: Limousin area of France
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Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 12:29 pm Post subject: |
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I thinks its the nature of the "car"
It encompasses History, art, fashion, philosophy and obsession to name just a few _________________ www.OldFrenchCars.com
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pigtin
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 1879 Location: Herne Bay
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Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 12:34 pm Post subject: |
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Pretty successful thread all-in-all. Cured 1stpop's problem, and set the world to rights... Are there any other forums with this sort of success rate?
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peter scott
Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7120 Location: Edinburgh
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