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ninjadave

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10th Oct, 2008 at 12:14:52am

Hi, My mini starts really well when cold but after it has warmed up it will occasionally stall at traffic lights and will struggle to start again :( ..... After it has cooled down it starts ok.
Any ideas/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

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10th Oct, 2008 at 12:22:54am

what engine do you have in turbo? mpi? or spi or carb?

ninjadave

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10th Oct, 2008 at 12:28:42pm

It has metro turbo lump with a carb.

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10th Oct, 2008 at 01:20:00pm

Fuel pressure or fuel evaperation, coil losing effiency when hot and/or spark plugs doing same.

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10th Oct, 2008 at 01:40:30pm

Check your fuel pressure, this happend to me. Fuel evaporation usually occurs a little while after its been sat not straight away.

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10th Oct, 2008 at 03:07:35pm

also may be to lean at tick over

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10th Oct, 2008 at 05:44:03pm

Hi,
Could be the ignition module breaking down, get one of those orange plastic spark testers you stick on top of the spark plug, least then you'll know spark or fuel that's the problem *wink*
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10th Oct, 2008 at 06:14:05pm

Does it run really rough when it starts again? Mine was doing that, spark was fine, carb was fine, but my valve clearances were way too tight. Worth a look.

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10th Oct, 2008 at 06:45:54pm

as above
make sure the carb has heat shield underneath.

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11th Oct, 2008 at 08:41:02pm

damn i was gonna say the heat shield too.

Mark used to work out when he was near home when he could switch the fuel off to the carb, so it would cut out as it got to his driveway, so if he had to hot start he could flood the carb with cold fuel, and he avoided issues, never experienced it myself not having an engine that runs yet



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11th Oct, 2008 at 08:43:53pm

coil?

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12th Oct, 2008 at 09:16:14am

Got a similar issue with my NA metro engine, after hard motorway driving and coming off a slip road it cuts out at the junction and is a bastard to start, i'm putting it down to evaporation.

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