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'04 Adv (obviously twin spark).......for many weeks now, she's been running like a total dog.....to the point where I haven't been going out on her and have been caging it instead.
She's one year and 18.5k miles old, and she gets ridden through all weathers and all conditions (including fords
)
The fuel filter has been de-tanked and replaced, so that's clean and clear (we thought it might be water in the filter after a ford exploit
)
Remus, Y piece, no baffle and a steptoe CCP link.
Symptoms;
Lack of power, hesitation under load, missing and bad hesitation particularly bad above 4500 revs and higher gears, to the point I don't feel safe filtering over 60 or overtaking.
Top end down 15mph.
Today I replaced both sets of plugs for new NGK's, cleaned and wd'd the leads and took her out for a blast...for the first 2 mins I was whooping and shouting in glee 'cos it all felt right again, but then at the bottom of Wrotham hill after a few minutes in 'Italian tune-up' mode , I eased off to pass an accident and when I rolled the throttle back on again, the hesitation was back, albeit not as bad.
To say I was gutted is an understatement
So I'm thinking it's the HT leads, or the coils in the ends breaking down.......hopefully, that nice Mr Steptoe has still got the ends from his breaking Adv so I can try those, but does anyone else have any other ideas??
(It did go in for a service with this problem after it first occurred, but at t hat time the hesitation was only above 80-ish so they didn't find it and it came back the same.)
This is ruining my enjoyment...any help appreciated.
Cheers
Bill
She's one year and 18.5k miles old, and she gets ridden through all weathers and all conditions (including fords
)The fuel filter has been de-tanked and replaced, so that's clean and clear (we thought it might be water in the filter after a ford exploit
)Remus, Y piece, no baffle and a steptoe CCP link.
Symptoms;
Lack of power, hesitation under load, missing and bad hesitation particularly bad above 4500 revs and higher gears, to the point I don't feel safe filtering over 60 or overtaking.
Top end down 15mph.
Today I replaced both sets of plugs for new NGK's, cleaned and wd'd the leads and took her out for a blast...for the first 2 mins I was whooping and shouting in glee 'cos it all felt right again, but then at the bottom of Wrotham hill after a few minutes in 'Italian tune-up' mode , I eased off to pass an accident and when I rolled the throttle back on again, the hesitation was back, albeit not as bad.
To say I was gutted is an understatement
So I'm thinking it's the HT leads, or the coils in the ends breaking down.......hopefully, that nice Mr Steptoe has still got the ends from his breaking Adv so I can try those, but does anyone else have any other ideas??
(It did go in for a service with this problem after it first occurred, but at t hat time the hesitation was only above 80-ish so they didn't find it and it came back the same.)
This is ruining my enjoyment...any help appreciated.
Cheers
Bill
