grahamnaismith
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Out of my depth again!
2001 Amazon 4.2L TDA 100 series (HDJ100) on 140k (rebuilt engine) and all been fine in terms of running. 4k miles to Morocco and back in March was fine. Ok so the big end went in Thailand but that was 2.5 years ago and I've moved on. Not been doing too much driving in it lately but set off this morning from Cambridge way early this morning (slightly damp, not cold) having driven up there on Friday. Driving for about 30 mins at about 70 mph with no probs and then sudden loss of power. Revs dropped really low and wouldnt respond to the accelerator, car didn't stall so pulled over and it was still running. Would not accelerate above about 2000 rpm sitting in neutral. Checked under the bonnet and couldn't see a throttle cable I could manually pull. No apparent fuel leak or anything of that nature. Sat there for about 5 minutes - engine still running and it wouldn't accelerate passed about 2,000 rpm. Turned engine off and then on and it was completely fine. Then drove 100 miles home at 70-80 mph with no probs.
Have a steinbauer p-box that Julian fitted last year. Injectors also fitted by Julian and despite some initial teething problems all fine. Just a temp fuel blockage maybe? I had filled up just before I arrived there on the Friday (Shell). Cat converter? All the gauges looked fine - oil pressure, temp etc. Dirty fuel from Morocco etc considered but I've gone through 2 complete tanks since then. Did get a little bit low on Friday (orange light on) but still a good bit from the bottom. Only serviced it myself including new fuel filter about a month ago.
As an aside when it did start up - when I revved it up there was a clicking/typing whirring noise coming from the engine as the car revved down which I hadn't heard before? Red-herring maybe.
Any ideas guys?
Worried of Surrey!
2001 Amazon 4.2L TDA 100 series (HDJ100) on 140k (rebuilt engine) and all been fine in terms of running. 4k miles to Morocco and back in March was fine. Ok so the big end went in Thailand but that was 2.5 years ago and I've moved on. Not been doing too much driving in it lately but set off this morning from Cambridge way early this morning (slightly damp, not cold) having driven up there on Friday. Driving for about 30 mins at about 70 mph with no probs and then sudden loss of power. Revs dropped really low and wouldnt respond to the accelerator, car didn't stall so pulled over and it was still running. Would not accelerate above about 2000 rpm sitting in neutral. Checked under the bonnet and couldn't see a throttle cable I could manually pull. No apparent fuel leak or anything of that nature. Sat there for about 5 minutes - engine still running and it wouldn't accelerate passed about 2,000 rpm. Turned engine off and then on and it was completely fine. Then drove 100 miles home at 70-80 mph with no probs.
Have a steinbauer p-box that Julian fitted last year. Injectors also fitted by Julian and despite some initial teething problems all fine. Just a temp fuel blockage maybe? I had filled up just before I arrived there on the Friday (Shell). Cat converter? All the gauges looked fine - oil pressure, temp etc. Dirty fuel from Morocco etc considered but I've gone through 2 complete tanks since then. Did get a little bit low on Friday (orange light on) but still a good bit from the bottom. Only serviced it myself including new fuel filter about a month ago.
As an aside when it did start up - when I revved it up there was a clicking/typing whirring noise coming from the engine as the car revved down which I hadn't heard before? Red-herring maybe.
Any ideas guys?
Worried of Surrey!