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Romen
31-08-2012, 01:29 PM
Howdy.

A couple of things are going on:
-When cold (more so on a cold morning) on petrol but not on gas, the car can hesitate until it gets a little warm. Possible throttle-body need cleaning?
-After the car is at op temperature, it idles roughish, both on petrol and LPG. The taco doesnt bounce much but if you look carefully, it does a bit. Possible oxy-sensor? Though I didn't think the oxy-sensor did much with gas?
-Not so important.. but the A/C compressor is rather squeaky. Silicon spray doesn't seem to help.. :(


I get around 330km on 60L of gas.. No idea on petrol, haven't tested. Temp gauge sits just 1 notch under 1/2.

What I've done:
-All new plugs
-New Leads
-New ICS o-ring
-New Dizzy Cap and rotor button
-Oil is clean and in good condition. Just did a flush too.
-Replaced the tappet cover seals
-Flushed the trans and put in new fluid
-New airfilter
-Cleaned the throttle-body*

*Done that twice now, got dirty again in a matter of a few weeks... When it was clean, didn't notice much of the hesitation on petrol when cold either... of course, may not be connected. Maybe something is blocked?

Attempted to do Oxy-sensor, however on the ground seems WAY to hard/annoying/kill-something-now... So I'll get someone with a hoist to do that. Anyone in SA here want's to assist for cheap/beer would be nice lol.


So... Any suggestions? lol

Thankyou.

race5l
31-08-2012, 02:34 PM
Not sure what your issue is but I get about 440km from the same amount of gas on a dual fuel setup, so something seems odd.

Romen
31-08-2012, 02:40 PM
City driving or country? In the country, and prior to replacing everything, it got 550km. Oh.. My system is under 2 years old too...

Romen
06-09-2012, 06:24 AM
Yep... Really think I'll get someone else to put in the new oxy-sensor... what a pick of a thing to do on the ground!

Anyways, the oxysensor is also rigged in to my gas system... So it seems it might just be the oxy sensor.

Noticed the heater core has a very slight leak. I might just use some stop leak stuff to fix the heater core for now. Looks very evil trying to replace it!!

Romen
17-09-2012, 07:11 PM
Replaced Oxy sensor and it seems to have solved the rough idle issue. Will report back how gas eco goes in a week or so.