MeltonBrand
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This place has been the inspiration for several fixes for me in the past, so let me share a fix recently that has literally changed my life.
Like many on here I've lived with the idiosyncracies of a 3200 for as long as I've owned her. Major issues in my ownership have been high (really high!) idling in P & N, a persistent but intermittent CEL code thrown by an O2 sensor and more recently a brake pedal like a brick.
Over the last few years we thought we'd solved the idling issue with a new handmade throttle pot, and we had to a great extent - except when the car got hot. More of that later. The CEL code I'd started to ignore as we changed the 02 sensors over and it still threw the same fault which I put down to crispy wiring or just one of those things. The brake thing ****** me off so much that I stuck her in the garage for 3 months (and let the battery die).
Here's the thing though. It was hot day when the brakes went, and at the same time the idling went wild again. And here's the good bit.....
I called the AA to give me a tow to Migliore in Bromsgrove to investigate and repair. Guy came out in a transit. I asked him where the trailer was. He replied that he was going to fix the fault. And here's what he did:
Got me to sit in the car and turn it over and put my foot on the brake
Fiddles about with the hoses at the back of the engine and suddenly my foot goes down and the idling moderates
I get out and ask him what he's found and he shows me the kayser valve that has sheared. Essentially the bleeding thing has probably been hairline cracked since I bought the car - it was worse when the weather is hot as it would be as the crack would expand. But although we'd hunted for a vac leak before we'd never been able to find it.
So, he fixes the valve with superglue and gaffer tape. I find a bit of extra hose and a couple of jubilee clips to fit the thing back in without having to get under the car.
I drive it to Bromsgrove without a hiccup.
Vic fixes it with kayser valve he has in the cupboard for £70.
No idling issues, no CEL, and functional brakes since.
I also wrote to the Chief Exec of the AA.
Like many on here I've lived with the idiosyncracies of a 3200 for as long as I've owned her. Major issues in my ownership have been high (really high!) idling in P & N, a persistent but intermittent CEL code thrown by an O2 sensor and more recently a brake pedal like a brick.
Over the last few years we thought we'd solved the idling issue with a new handmade throttle pot, and we had to a great extent - except when the car got hot. More of that later. The CEL code I'd started to ignore as we changed the 02 sensors over and it still threw the same fault which I put down to crispy wiring or just one of those things. The brake thing ****** me off so much that I stuck her in the garage for 3 months (and let the battery die).
Here's the thing though. It was hot day when the brakes went, and at the same time the idling went wild again. And here's the good bit.....
I called the AA to give me a tow to Migliore in Bromsgrove to investigate and repair. Guy came out in a transit. I asked him where the trailer was. He replied that he was going to fix the fault. And here's what he did:
Got me to sit in the car and turn it over and put my foot on the brake
Fiddles about with the hoses at the back of the engine and suddenly my foot goes down and the idling moderates
I get out and ask him what he's found and he shows me the kayser valve that has sheared. Essentially the bleeding thing has probably been hairline cracked since I bought the car - it was worse when the weather is hot as it would be as the crack would expand. But although we'd hunted for a vac leak before we'd never been able to find it.
So, he fixes the valve with superglue and gaffer tape. I find a bit of extra hose and a couple of jubilee clips to fit the thing back in without having to get under the car.
I drive it to Bromsgrove without a hiccup.
Vic fixes it with kayser valve he has in the cupboard for £70.
No idling issues, no CEL, and functional brakes since.
I also wrote to the Chief Exec of the AA.
