my little moggy (Arthur is his name ) =) has an annoying habbit of running absolutley perfectly for ages and then 1 day i will be driving along and all of a sudden i would lose power and he will stop me in the middle of the road.. obviously me not being a mechaninc i phoned my dad (haha thats us women for ya) and we managed to find a broken wire in the distributer, which is now fixed he ran fine again for another couple of weeks and has now started to stop on me again, the wire is still fine so it must be another problem ... we cant figure it out can you??
im not a member as yet....
its very sudden it just slows right down, power to the other parts of the car is still there e.g lighs and wipers etc its just actual movement that stops!
Did they do the whole service kit, i.e plugs, points all those parts etc etc?
One thing that can cause Minors to stop is a faulty fuel pump which can be fixed by cleaning or replacing the points in the pump, or at the worst fitting a new pump.
Yep, fuel pump's a common one as it tends to get ignored during servicing. If it dies again try thumping the fuel pump while the ignition is on and if it suddenly starts ticking away for a few seconds then that's the culprit. The fuel pump is the cylindrical thing to the right of the battery.
ooo i dont know if it was checked during the service but i will deffinatley try that if he dies on my way home from work tonight haha, saves me phoning my dad
If the fuel pump does stop ticking, a useful get-you-home thing is having an umbrella on the passenger seat. When the engine falters, take the brolly and thump the bulkhead underneath the glove compartment. Repeat as often as necessary.
has the filter in the pump been cleaned recently. mine was blocked gave me all sorts of problems.as you look at the pump there is a nut underneath at the bottom of the pump.undo that remove the filter and clean in petrol then refit,easy.
