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Engine Specific Info and Questions => IDI Engine => Topic started by: catlin_cava on September 23, 2008, 05:47:54 pm

Title: 1.9 Stalling Trouble
Post by: catlin_cava on September 23, 2008, 05:47:54 pm
The car has been on the road for less then 2 weeks...and as soon as the motor is warm and hits 3000RPM the motor buggs down and stalls...and if i try and start it, it puffs out blueish white, smoke...and it does the same when I step on it. Its really hard to start...
Title: 1.9 Stalling Trouble
Post by: burn_your_money on September 23, 2008, 06:39:13 pm
IDI or TDI? :?

How are you judging that the motor is warmed up?

Any more details on your car?
Title: 1.9 Stalling Trouble
Post by: catlin_cava on September 23, 2008, 06:43:04 pm
idi, after about 5 to 10 minutes, the car was gas and i converter it to diesel...everything seems to be running fine...however i've notice the motor has been running louder then it was when it was in the other car
Title: 1.9 Stalling Trouble
Post by: burn_your_money on September 23, 2008, 06:48:37 pm
Run it out of a jerry can and see what happens
Title: 1.9 Stalling Trouble
Post by: catlin_cava on September 23, 2008, 06:52:02 pm
why???
Title: 1.9 Stalling Trouble
Post by: catlin_cava on September 23, 2008, 06:52:38 pm
why
Title: 1.9 Stalling Trouble
Post by: burn_your_money on September 23, 2008, 07:08:27 pm
Gas fuel lines are designed to be under pressure, no vacuum. At 3000 RPM there is quite a bit of vacuum going on, which *could* stall the car.

It will eliminate the fuel delivery sytem up to the pump at the least

The motor ran a-ok in the other car?
Title: 1.9 Stalling Trouble
Post by: catlin_cava on September 23, 2008, 08:37:15 pm
yea, motor ran fine, in my car its everything is the same, i transfered everything over
Title: 1.9 Stalling Trouble
Post by: catlin_cava on September 23, 2008, 08:58:34 pm
when the car is at idle and i rev it up to over 3000 it works fine...yet when i'm driving i can notice the difference
Title: 1.9 Stalling Trouble
Post by: Smokey Eddy on September 24, 2008, 12:08:48 am
do you notice it the MOST at low rpm?
Could be fuel delivery is being restricted somehow.
well i mean, it obviously is but maybe the fuel lines are backwards on the filter or something. Run it out of a canister of diesel somehow like burn_your_money said. A jerry can would be very hard to get to fit! I'd use a bottle with a screw on cap, punch a hole big enough for the lines to fit in and strap it down (or wedge it somewhere) and drive carefully (no side to side jerking haha)
I'd do that first see how that goes.
Title: 1.9 Stalling Trouble
Post by: burn_your_money on September 24, 2008, 04:53:28 am
I thought it did it at idle as well, a jerry can would be a bad option then.

How many air bubbles do you have in the feed line?
Title: 1.9 Stalling Trouble
Post by: burn_your_money on September 24, 2008, 07:28:41 pm
Did you use the diesel or gasser cat?
Title: 1.9 Stalling Trouble
Post by: Vincent Waldon on September 24, 2008, 08:06:38 pm
Quote from: "burn_your_money"
Did you use the diesel or gasser cat?


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Excellent call, Garth !!!
Title: 1.9 Stalling Trouble
Post by: jtanguay on September 25, 2008, 04:58:44 am
that thing must be plugged to death  :lol:  just running my car for about 10 minutes with a new exhaust pipe has sealed any leaks in the joints, and the inside is coated with thick black soot  :twisted:  just a bit of 'spirited' driving
Title: 1.9 Stalling Trouble
Post by: arb on September 25, 2008, 09:39:42 am
WOW !!!  A new DPF, if only for a short time ;-)
Title: 1.9 Stalling Trouble
Post by: catlin_cava on September 25, 2008, 06:11:15 pm
ok so the fuel gauge is busted :shock: so once I fuel in it the car it worked :D my bad
Title: 1.9 Stalling Trouble
Post by: Dirtrag2 on September 26, 2008, 03:28:25 pm
wheee hehehehehe  :lol:
that's funny, I thought of low fuel as being the problem but figured you'd run out of fuel if that was the case!  PS: mine does the same  :P
Title: 1.9 Stalling Trouble
Post by: burn_your_money on September 26, 2008, 05:18:14 pm
sweet, and easy fix. Score one for the good guys
Title: 1.9 Stalling Trouble
Post by: catlin_cava on September 27, 2008, 05:30:49 am
yup call my old man at 7 in the morning...tell him to bring me fuel...30km away...lol...no i filled the tank and my gauge is working??? :shock: i think i'm going to park it this winter to really work on it good...