NOT STARTING??????

Site Subscriber Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 1139

My r5 gtt aint starting its as if it has a mind off its own, it starts sumtimes and sumtimes (especially wen warm) it just clicks and does fuk-all i need 2 giv it a couple of turns? (x11)

Help plz this is doing my fukin head in, its bn happining 4 months
iv tried :- (NEW) Starter,Battery,Alternater,Dizzy cap,Leads etc.

Confused

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

well looking at your engine bay its a mess boy and the fire may have damaged some stuff as well.

Anyway I can bet your missing the starter heatshield which will cause the problem.

Site Subscriber Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 1139

mmmmm never thought of that, but i had these probs before the fire????

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

well theres still the missing heatshield which will be your prob, when I next see you I'll have a look and point at its absence, they always go missing. I broke the orions off accidentally today.

Site Subscriber Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 1139

Nice one!

(You don't want to do that)

Mr Quoter-vator Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 7405

what fire?? what pics???

Site Subscriber Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 1139

aint got any pics....sorry..... would have bn good to get sum aswell.

Ill explain later........

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

his car had an underbonnet fire and I will take pics when I next see him and its daylight.

Site Subscriber Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 1139

yip that is true Sad

So wat u think of the car?

Site Subscriber Joined: 13 Oct 2004 Posts: 4722

Theold chevy 350 5.7 V8 beastys had that problem, get warm, then woudent start, let em cool down, and booom, of it raws. how i miss the C10

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

hmm needs standard bumpers put on it and mate plug the overboost switch back in, if the turbos knackered its not gonna even boost to trip it and its best to keep em plugged in.

When you get the new turbo on it adjust the switch or I will do it for ye.

Its ok, forgot how wee they were, last gtt i was in was Hollinsheads when me and ben went to his.

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I was driving in the town one night and my GF said she could smell burning, i couldnt so carried on driving and 5 mins later she goes "I definetly smell BURNING" I said to her "As long as it aint my car i dont care (the actul words wer I DONT GIV A FUCK)", Then 100yrds along the road my lights cut out and the engine dies, im saying to myself wat now? (nervously), Then suddenly Shocked

i c the smoke cuming from under the bonnet Sad

so i pull in and my instinct kicks in, I open the bonnet to a flash of fire at my face Shocked

, again instinct kicks in and i get water of my m8 (who had just purchased two 2L bottles) and started pouring. Hearing all the hissing and sparks i battled to put the flames out and succeded Confused

. Then it dawns on me Confused

the damage that has bn done and the damage i hav done by pouring water on it.

I hav to admitt i got away with it, A badly burnt heatsheild and a burnt through earth wire..................which brings me to the conclusion that the thread i posted on NOT STARTING might b becoz of that fukin wire. I got it fixed by an auto electrition but hav now went down and had a look to find he has just jointed it onto a new piece connecting it to the battery (BASTARD)!

But anyway thats wat happened Crying or Very sad

.

THE END.

Mr Quoter-vator Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 7405

thats real unlucky

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

damage didn't look to bad but I was looking at it in the dark

Site Subscriber Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 1139

ull c it in the daylight.

Mr Quoter-vator Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 7405

when was this?

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

dunno a while back, when he just got the car i think.

Its been nedded up with crappy bumpers, the fronts worse than the back, its all round. Looks like a fiesta bumper.

His big arse has also torn the seat.

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Tell me about it

Im getting new ones anyway, but have to say it is rather embarassing wen u get out the car and people look in and c the drivers seat the way it is.

But those bumpers r MINGIN arnt they!

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

yep they are.

mines torn as well i think, cannae mind.

Site Subscriber Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 1139

wouldnt suprise me!

LOL

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Nearly 100 pl hav read this thread Very Happy