Hi guys newbie on here and to Punto's so be patient (I'm a landrover nut but the missus has a mk1 punto) I also have no "comma" key on my laptop so excuse the poor punctuation.
A few days ago her car started to run rough. A quick diagnosis showed it wasnt firing on the cylinder nearest the drivers side (dont know if this is 1 or 4 !!) As her cambelt tensioner had been squealing and she was hitting 70k miles I suggested to give her a full service i.e cambelt; water pump; plugs; leads filters and oil. I popped plugs in the other day to keep her running till this thursday when I planned to do the rest.
Today she was driving and engine temp light came on she nursed it home very slowly. When I had a look it had clearly overheated so I took into changing the belt and water pump (which was perfect) and new leads etc. After popping it all back together I ran the engine and there was some smoke wisping up from the back left handside of the head after removing a plastic bracket I could see that it was coming from a plastic housing that appears to hold a temperature sensor and connects onto the pipes going to the heater matrix. Does anyone know the official name for this or where I'd find a part number before I go ringing around looking for a replacement ?
I had planned to post a picture but as I'm a newbie and havn't posted 5 times yet I'm not allowed share a url yet
Also the car seems to be smoking a little bit do you think I may have the timing slightly off ? And to add another mystery I checked the all the HT leads using a timing light; first 2 from left to right were running perfect second 2 were intermittent and showed no light when the engine revved up ??
Any suggestions greatly received
Thomas
A few days ago her car started to run rough. A quick diagnosis showed it wasnt firing on the cylinder nearest the drivers side (dont know if this is 1 or 4 !!) As her cambelt tensioner had been squealing and she was hitting 70k miles I suggested to give her a full service i.e cambelt; water pump; plugs; leads filters and oil. I popped plugs in the other day to keep her running till this thursday when I planned to do the rest.
Today she was driving and engine temp light came on she nursed it home very slowly. When I had a look it had clearly overheated so I took into changing the belt and water pump (which was perfect) and new leads etc. After popping it all back together I ran the engine and there was some smoke wisping up from the back left handside of the head after removing a plastic bracket I could see that it was coming from a plastic housing that appears to hold a temperature sensor and connects onto the pipes going to the heater matrix. Does anyone know the official name for this or where I'd find a part number before I go ringing around looking for a replacement ?
I had planned to post a picture but as I'm a newbie and havn't posted 5 times yet I'm not allowed share a url yet
Also the car seems to be smoking a little bit do you think I may have the timing slightly off ? And to add another mystery I checked the all the HT leads using a timing light; first 2 from left to right were running perfect second 2 were intermittent and showed no light when the engine revved up ??
Any suggestions greatly received
Thomas