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Chris Williams
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Hi!!!
Yould some of the knowlegeable chappies on the Forum please suggest how I can fix my Brava TD100 "Old Betsy" please?
I have:-
1) A judder on setting off from rest no matter how carefully I try and do it! Also sometimes it runs out of steam on occasions and then will give amomentary surge of power at odd times without warning, which is potentially dangerous in a queue!!
2) Diffulties starting from rest at traffic lights, etc., in hilly districts related to 1) above - I noticed this particularly yesterday evening at the numerous light controlled junctions in the N Bradford area, many of which are on the top of hills!
3) The Glowplug light is flashing for over a minute after each startup. Associated with this when the engine is cold is a fairly large amount of bluish smoke, little or none at running temperature. It does seem to pull better when cold as well, unusally enough!
The temp. gauge never rises higher than the 'N' mark even in jams, and there's no signs of disappearing coolant that I can see - I topped it up 2 weeks ago and there's no signs of it
having gone down in the expansion bottle!
4) Manky diesel-like fumes in the heating - after I've driven much more than 15 min with heating on I get a headache, and my friend who likes to go shopping with me as a passenger has complained about this as well!
Sorry for the length of the query, I'd like a few opinions before I take it anywhere to see if any of this is home-fixable!
Many thanks,
Chris Williams
Yould some of the knowlegeable chappies on the Forum please suggest how I can fix my Brava TD100 "Old Betsy" please?
I have:-
1) A judder on setting off from rest no matter how carefully I try and do it! Also sometimes it runs out of steam on occasions and then will give amomentary surge of power at odd times without warning, which is potentially dangerous in a queue!!
2) Diffulties starting from rest at traffic lights, etc., in hilly districts related to 1) above - I noticed this particularly yesterday evening at the numerous light controlled junctions in the N Bradford area, many of which are on the top of hills!
3) The Glowplug light is flashing for over a minute after each startup. Associated with this when the engine is cold is a fairly large amount of bluish smoke, little or none at running temperature. It does seem to pull better when cold as well, unusally enough!
The temp. gauge never rises higher than the 'N' mark even in jams, and there's no signs of disappearing coolant that I can see - I topped it up 2 weeks ago and there's no signs of it
having gone down in the expansion bottle!
4) Manky diesel-like fumes in the heating - after I've driven much more than 15 min with heating on I get a headache, and my friend who likes to go shopping with me as a passenger has complained about this as well!
Sorry for the length of the query, I'd like a few opinions before I take it anywhere to see if any of this is home-fixable!
Many thanks,
Chris Williams