Provenance run about

This is my project thred of the car me and dan bought to make some money off...long sotry short im trying to make it run so i can pull my DT off the road while i get it running right and untill diesel comes down to less than 15p a liter more expensive than petrol!

Started with this



Bit of body damage and a cracked windscreen


Engine is shagged as well



Was ran dry too many times so its become my mnission to get it running right for...next to nothing really, i cant afford to spend a lot on it.

First things first - needed some petrol so i scrounged together a fiver in loose change and walked to the petrol station with a jerry can, put it in the car and found another fiver so i thought id get some more petrol but not put it in the tank just yet.

Next up was a new battery as this one was beyond dead - well i cant drive two cars at once so out the DT the battery came.

First thought - Injectors will be dead after being run dry so much so i had to get to them first

Engine went from this -



To this -



And injectors got cleaned by placing them in a cup half full of petrol and left to soak for ten mins, then they got a spray over with some break cleaner and rubbed well with a towel



The dirt that came off the injectors and was left in the bottom of the cup




Put it all back together minus the pain the arse air filter and tried starting it...no luck

Petrol spilt all over my fingers when i pulled the injectors off though so its not the pump, could be the coil pack so when the money comes through from selling my spare turbo on ebay i'll try replacing that

I'd deffo be trying the copil pack next, after that its going to get quite expensive...

I'm sure you can make it run, just a case of finding out whats wrong now!

Yeh, coil pack can get one off ebay for about £50 More than i want to be spending but im just thinking of the long term gains, thing is mot is up in jan, depending what the difference in fuel prices is i might get another windscreen for this and put it through... knowing me the projects will end up swapping round and ill be using the DT as a run about and start doing silly things like put a VTS engine in it...would have to get it resprayed first though, id feel like a plank driving around a 120bhp 306 in baby blue

good work hope u mange to get it wrking

Tried getting it towed around to pull any fuel through the system and check for air in the system...till my dad reminded me that its a petrol so air in the fuel isnt a problem..woops well at least now i know its not that and now to start looking at electrics, will check for a spark tomorrow after work, if theres no spark - new plugs then new coil pack

let me guess scott will do the engine conversion lol? thatll be expensive to put a vts engine into that 1.4 lol

Just an idea for now, if i can work out some storage space for it that is, was a nightmare tonight having 7 cars parked outside my house at once, 6 is alright but there just isnt enough room for me to have 2 cars at home!

Checked coil pack for a spark today - nothing! So thats the next trial, gotta ring round scrappies tomorrow morning to see if any of them have a coil pack.

Sounds about right, my friend Ian has got a 1.4 8v 206 and thats only 5 years old, its already on its 3rd coil pack!

New coil pack arrives this morning but ive got a funny feeling i ordered the wrong one, too knackered after driving all the way to leeds last night and back again to see if it fits now though, hopefully this should be working by tomorrow night if ive got it right

Good luck

No luck with the coil pack, theres no spark there, so what next? Spark plugs look quite healthy and even if they were shagged there would still be a bit of a spark, ECU time?

do they have an ignition module like the 205's? worth looking into

coil pack is switched on by the crank sensor which sends the signal to the relay behind the battery either of them i would say

Project now over, car is picked up by someone from the west midlands tomorrow morning. No more projects apart from the DT untill i can get a garage of my own!