djedstar
Member
Registered: 22nd Jan 07
Location: Keighley, West Yorkshire
User status: Offline
|
Car keeps overfueling on cylinder 3 causing the spark plug to become saturated and not work properly this happens every 50 miles or so . Which means i haft to keep taking the spark plug out and cleaning it what could be causing this?
|
djedstar
Member
Registered: 22nd Jan 07
Location: Keighley, West Yorkshire
User status: Offline
|
53 plate club btw
|
djedstar
Member
Registered: 22nd Jan 07
Location: Keighley, West Yorkshire
User status: Offline
|
53 plate club btw
|
Vivasam
Member
Registered: 31st Jan 10
User status: Offline
|
When you say fifty miles or so, is this on a long journey, or over quite a few days running? Do you feel the difference immediately, or is it a gradual loss of power. It could be that the dis or dissy is breaking down when it is really hot, or the lead doing the similar, or the plug. cannot be an injector problem, as this would show right away.
|
djedstar
Member
Registered: 22nd Jan 07
Location: Keighley, West Yorkshire
User status: Offline
|
Over quite a few days running engine never really gets hot and you fell it immediately its always cylinder 3 aswell
|
Vivasam
Member
Registered: 31st Jan 10
User status: Offline
|
Unless the plug is being fouled up by oil, it just has to be the plug. When was the last time it had a service with new plugs, oil, air and petrol filters?
A breakdown of a lead, dissy or dis pack through heat does not accumulate over a few days, therefore you can discount this theory. Petrol is obviously being delivered to the cylinder, so it has to be the plug, or a sticky valve, which is occuring only intermittently.
Try swapping the plug with another see what happens?
|
djedstar
Member
Registered: 22nd Jan 07
Location: Keighley, West Yorkshire
User status: Offline
|
When i pull the plug out its always covered in oil and its due a service btw
|
djedstar
Member
Registered: 22nd Jan 07
Location: Keighley, West Yorkshire
User status: Offline
|
Whats causing it though?
|