Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 05:53:17 +0000 (UTC) From: craignopsam.apana.org.au (Craig Ian Dewick) Subject: received my low-cost C900 - trying to work out what's wrong.
Well I finally received the cheap, unregistered C900 I bought a while back and the engine doesn't run, as stated on the Ebay listing page for it: http://cgi.ebay.com.au/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemWithCategory&item=2430722392 I dropped in a battery and it will crank over fine (so the starter motor is ok), but once it fires it dies again and will not idle. Most of the time it backfires (or appears to) with a pulse of what looks like partially burnt fuel/air mixture coming from somewhere around the intake manifold. What I plan to do is: - replace the engine oil as what's in the sump is very thin and appears to have fuel mixed with it (!) by the consistency and smell, - replace the fuel and oil filters, - maybe remove and clean the injectors. The fuel tank was empty when the car was delivered so I put about 10 litres of fuel in which should be enough to get fuel into the engine if the fuel injection system is working right. I don't think doing much more than those basic things will be worth the time or expense since I haven't paid much for the car (A$225 for the car and A$400 to transport it from Brisbane to Sydney), and if the engine really is going to be too costly to repair the car can just be a donor for bits to fix up my other C900 (which is working). Still, the second C900 has a 5 spd manual transmission so if the engine can be fixed up the car will at least be drivable and that means it could then be put through an inspection for getting it registered (which would increase it's value, but maybe not by much). So my journey continues... Regards, Craig. -- Craig Ian Dewick (craignopsam.apana.org.au). http://nospam/~craig APANA Sydney Regional Co-ordinator. Operator of Jedi (an APANA Sydney POP). Always striving for a secure long-term future in an insecure short-term world Have you exported a crypto system today? Do your bit to undermine the NSA.
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