gluggythedisco
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Hi all, thank you for looking at this page I would really appreciate any help with the problems I am having with my discovery.
A bit of background first. I have a 1995 Land rover Discovery 3.9 V8 injection with the hot wire system. We've had the car for around a year and it always started perfectly first time but had an overheating problem. We decided to do a gas conversion on it and since then it has never been right.
Initially it was fine but a large back fire happened and since then it has been very difficult to start, having to be turned over for a very long time before it starts and when it does start there is alot of smoke and can back fire. It also ran very unevenly and would tend to stall.
But now the problem has got really bad and won't start at all. We get the occasional cough from the engine but most of the time it just turns and nothing happens. There is a strong smell of fuel from the engine bay and the exhaust after turning over. We do have a spark, but my husband thought it looked weak so we have put a new coil on it. It has also recently had new dis cap, rotor arm, ht leads & radiator. We took a spark plug out and it was quite black and was wet with fuel. We have put the old dis cap and rotor arm back on to see if that made a difference but didn't. Have checked the position of the leads on the cap and traced them back to the plugs and they are right. This seems to have been a gradual deterioration and I am baffled about what it can be. There seems to be resistance across the wires in the air mass flow meter so I don't think they are broken and done some checks with the wiring but not alot, its hard to know where to start.
I think that about as much info as I can give, but I would really appreciate and ideas or help anyone can give me, I just want to drive it again
A bit of background first. I have a 1995 Land rover Discovery 3.9 V8 injection with the hot wire system. We've had the car for around a year and it always started perfectly first time but had an overheating problem. We decided to do a gas conversion on it and since then it has never been right.
Initially it was fine but a large back fire happened and since then it has been very difficult to start, having to be turned over for a very long time before it starts and when it does start there is alot of smoke and can back fire. It also ran very unevenly and would tend to stall.
But now the problem has got really bad and won't start at all. We get the occasional cough from the engine but most of the time it just turns and nothing happens. There is a strong smell of fuel from the engine bay and the exhaust after turning over. We do have a spark, but my husband thought it looked weak so we have put a new coil on it. It has also recently had new dis cap, rotor arm, ht leads & radiator. We took a spark plug out and it was quite black and was wet with fuel. We have put the old dis cap and rotor arm back on to see if that made a difference but didn't. Have checked the position of the leads on the cap and traced them back to the plugs and they are right. This seems to have been a gradual deterioration and I am baffled about what it can be. There seems to be resistance across the wires in the air mass flow meter so I don't think they are broken and done some checks with the wiring but not alot, its hard to know where to start.
I think that about as much info as I can give, but I would really appreciate and ideas or help anyone can give me, I just want to drive it again
