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(Message started by: wumpster on Oct 9^th, 2004, 5:12pm)

Title: Cold starting
Post by wumpster on Oct 9^th, 2004, 5:12pm

my scorp dosent seem to be switching the choke on any one any ideas how to fix it

Title: Re: Cold starting
Post by scorpio_man on Oct 9^th, 2004, 6:00pm

hi there

it doesn't have a choke as such. have a read of.....http://www.fordscorpio.co.uk/pooridle.htm

can you discribe your problem in a bit more detail?

hth

Title: Re: Cold starting
Post by wumpster on Oct 10^th, 2004, 3:19am

i have cleaned the maf as discribed on the site the car will not idle when cold and when warm if you switch the ac on the rpm drops and does not compensate i have also cleaned the idle valve could it be this that is at fault

Title: Re: Cold starting
Post by tass on Oct 17^th, 2004, 8:12pm

Thank you Scorpio_man. I think you've hit the nail on the head for my problem. My Scorp 2.0L 16v M plate is having poor idle at the moment. After changing the usual suspect, spark plugs and HT leads. I noticed a poor conditioned wiring loom (i.e. bare wire) connected to the top of two of the spark plugs. I hope this fixes the problem. either way it needs changing.

Thank you once again. This is a great forum.

Tass
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