Strange thing been happening last few days. Meg is kind of lumpy and jerky occasionally when pulling off and if I slow down then try to speed up. Once at normal road speed she is fine.... any ideas?
I'm hoping to get engine cover off this weekend if it doesn't rain and use Michael till then just in case!
Check your plugs/leads/coil/rotor arm/distributor/points as a first job. Assuming you have all of those, of course.
I had a similar problem on our Mk2, and that turned out to be corrosion on the spring connection below one of the coilpacks.
Best place to start:)
If no luck with that, check out the idle air control valve (IACV) this can stick causing running problems
Strange thing been happening last few days. Meg is kind of lumpy and jerky occasionally when pulling off and if I slow down then try to speed up. Once at normal road speed she is fine.... any ideas?
I'm hoping to get engine cover off this weekend if it doesn't rain and use Michael till then just in case!
I know someone with a very early F (chassis no 0000085) and had exactly the same problem, Russell traced it with his computer to a bad connection on one of the coil packs ~ sorted for little money
Well in between the rain (and decorating my mates spare room) I popped engine cover off and had a poke around. The dizzy cap was slightly crusty on the inside sparky bits - so i gently cleaned the crust off, and off the rotor arm.... didn't look too bad to be honest. Popped all plug leads off and connections look clean.
Tried to get the coil pack lead off the coil pack and it wouldn't budge, plus almost no room from above to grab it! What a bloody stupid place to put it! So I gave up temporarily. Anyway fired her up and its the same. I have a spare coil pack on Fleur (although hopefully she will be MOT'd in a month or two and sold on!) - so I could try that on Meg I guess to check the pack out. I'll try and get that pesky coil lead off first though in case it's all manky on the connection. Just need really skinny arms!