My Sudden Breakdown

[Guest red7]

Driving along in Red7 on an Autumn afternoon when suddenly the Pinto 2 litre stops with a slight back fire. Off with the lid, check every possible easy fix, nothing. Call my mate on the mobile and he is out to the car in ten minutes. He takes a look and gets the tow rope out, this is serious, this guy worked on the rigs with me and had a reputation for "Laying on the healing hands". Kit which had baffled the best would come back to life and now my Hood had beaten him. Four of the North East Hoods must have spent at least a total of twenty hours trying to solve this problem with no luck, anybody got any ideas? :boohoo:

[Guest Charles B]

Hi Steve, I suppose you have checked, is the distributor still rotating?

[Guest olly]

is there a spark, is the petrol pump flowing could be a air leakon the manifold

 

ya realy need to tell us what you have checked first be for we can help

 

olly

[Guest red7]

I removed the dizzy and gave it a few turns. It feels like it's jamming. Took it apart and found a broken spring. Mystery solved. Anybody got a spare dizzy? I have a spare electric job but I would need a module and wiring diagram. You can seen the broken spring in the bottom left hand corner.

[Longboarder]

Four NE Hoodies can't fix it in twenty hours! They could build a catering van in that time! Suggest you buy a new car as aliens have abducted the crank and pistons.

I guess you have a spark and fuel as twenty hours should be enough time to check those. Perhaps the cam belt has jumped, or one of the woodruff keys has sheared and its not all rotating in sync. Sounds like a good puzzle to play with.

 

Nigel

 

Woops. You sussed it while I typed.

[Big Jim]

Steve, It serves you right for having a prehistoric bloody points dizzy.

now go and get yourself an inductive set up.

[Peter Bell]

They still have bob weights and springs though Jim!

Peter

[Big Jim]

They still have bob weights and springs though Jim!

That's true, but you don't hear of people having problems with them, they are very reliable.

[Guest red7]

I am off to an autojumble this morning. Searched every scrappy in the neighbourhood for parts without success (that's me off the Scrapheap Challenge team then, they should introduce a bloody big ferocious German Shepherd guard dog into that show to add realism ). It appears Sierra/Capri parts are rare in this area.

[Guest rizla]

then look for a transit van

[Guest salty_monk]

That's true, but you don't hear of people having problems with them, they are very reliable

 

This is the first one of these I've ever come across.... (in RH or Moggy minors...) can't imagine it's very common with any sort of dizzy....

[Big Jim]

This is the first one of these I've ever come across

Yeh, but you're only a young whipper-snapper, not an old withered geriatric like wot I am. (Get that in before Billy does!!)

[Guest rizla]

this can happen to any dizzy with bob weights

 

ps jim can remember vacume wipers and semafore signals

[Guest Petemate]

here we go again

I too can remember vacum wipers, AND the silly storage tank that was supposed to enable them to work longer when you had your foot down Ha! did it heck as like.

Semaphores? When I was 15, I had a pair on my Raleigh Superbe pushbike, wired up to a motorbike battery. Sad, or wot?

Pete(Oldgit)

[Guest TerryBarry]

Semaphore indicators (or Trafficators) - What Fun - having to thump the door pillar to get them to come out and then again to get them to drop back.