Dear all,
I have already received good advice from Simon on the fuel pump question but I would like to float this again hoping to get some feedback on overheating or the interconnection of these problems:
Hi there,
I have a 1973 P6 3500 with similar problems which are driving me nuts because I am no great mechanic myself and have to take the car to the garage. They specialise in classic cars and seem to know a fair bit but as the fault is intermittent it is difficult to track down.
My car would run roughly after 10 miles or so (today it also felt as if it had difficulties deciding which gear was right) and then cut out. It would sometimes not restart for an hour or more (tow truck to garage: garage man turns ignition key and car starts and runs perfectly grrrrr).
This has happened twice in town traffic, and twice on low fuel going up a hill.
The distributor has been checked and the spark is fine. The fuel pump has been refurbished but there were no replacement valves in the kit.
Once when this fault occured in town traffic the temperature had shot up and today (although the temperature was shown to be in the green) I thought the radiator was nearly boiling. I opened it carefully and there was a lot of pressure and a fair bit of fluid came out.
My questions are:
Is this just one fault or is there more than one problem?
Do you think an electric fuel pump is likely to help?
Is the car just overheating? And if so what can I do to prevent that from happening?
Thanks,
michael
I have already received good advice from Simon on the fuel pump question but I would like to float this again hoping to get some feedback on overheating or the interconnection of these problems:
Hi there,
I have a 1973 P6 3500 with similar problems which are driving me nuts because I am no great mechanic myself and have to take the car to the garage. They specialise in classic cars and seem to know a fair bit but as the fault is intermittent it is difficult to track down.
My car would run roughly after 10 miles or so (today it also felt as if it had difficulties deciding which gear was right) and then cut out. It would sometimes not restart for an hour or more (tow truck to garage: garage man turns ignition key and car starts and runs perfectly grrrrr).
This has happened twice in town traffic, and twice on low fuel going up a hill.
The distributor has been checked and the spark is fine. The fuel pump has been refurbished but there were no replacement valves in the kit.
Once when this fault occured in town traffic the temperature had shot up and today (although the temperature was shown to be in the green) I thought the radiator was nearly boiling. I opened it carefully and there was a lot of pressure and a fair bit of fluid came out.
My questions are:
Is this just one fault or is there more than one problem?
Do you think an electric fuel pump is likely to help?
Is the car just overheating? And if so what can I do to prevent that from happening?
Thanks,
michael