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[Jordie]

Hey,

my new engine is on road and been running over a week. I keep having the problem, that if i put my foot down hard or quickly, it revs its balls off and goes no where.

I can place my foot down gently and build up to about 1/4 of pedals travel towards the floor and its ok, after that it revs to high heaven and dunt gain any speed?

Any ideas what this is, i believe it cud be a worn clutch or maybe the carb/needle needs setting up.

Cheers guys

[siggy]

Clutch, sounds like classic clutch slip.

Check the adjusment

Siggy

[Jordie]

thought so, kane had a go with feeler guage thing, didnt change. Maybe it just needs more adjustment. Could always take clutch from old engine if needs be or get a new one fitted.

[miniman5]

Does it do it in netral when ure sitting on the drive??because mine does that when i start her up because i dont use the chocke

[miniman5]

Does it do it in netral when ure sitting on the drive??because mine does that when i start her up because i dont use the chocke.



4 get what i jsut put i red it again its jsut the power band in the engine. what engine is it? ive noticed when ure up in the high revs u dont get much enurshure because the car aint pulling bcoz the power bands dropped ofim not sure where they start and finish .when i pas my test ile be able to help you on that 1!

[Jordie]

its a 988, we just put in. Paid £60 for it, its a good runner, but the clutch is either worn or needs adjusting.

It aint needed choke to start for a couple of days, old engine needed it every time u turned the beggar off.

[Dan]

If you have adjusted the throw out stop to the figures given in the manuals and it hasn't helped you probably need a new clutch.

If it is pre-verto then adjusting the clutch is quite easy as you have direct control over the length of the clutch plunger and how far you move the pressure plate.

However if it is verto then the set-up is a little different as it has a self-adjusting feature inside. The setting you make is just the initial setting and then the clutch adjusts itself as you use it. So you really need a new clutch to be able set this up by the book. That is the system as far as I understand it anyway, I may be wrong.

Are you setting the throw out stop? If it is a pre-verto then you have a return setting to adjust as well and setting this won't affect the actual clutch engagement as it's just for setting slave cylinder travel.

[Jordie]

dunno, i'll get someone with more mini knowledge to find out what exactly is up wiv it

Oh blimey, u should see the weather hear. Hammering it down, grates in street flowing onto roads etc, just got back from pontefract with mam after shopping, had to stop at halfords to get one of them leather clothes to clean windows, wipers on full, puddles spraying over bonnet, cars splashing me, spray from all wheels etc, its terrible. Was going to goto wakefield, but decided againist it.

[Purple Tom]

we just had that hear in derby, rain so dense it looked like fog. Driving conditions a bit dicey!!