Author Topic: Samco hoses.  (Read 1454 times)

Luke

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Samco hoses.
« on: 19 January 2004, 15:33 »
A few months ago I posted this...

...when I was driving it day in day out I always had this problem of a racing engine.
I would start it up in the mornings and straight away the revs would race from 3500-4000 then all the way back to almost 0, before the engine would pick up that it was going to cut off and race the revs back up again. It was a real annoyance, and really noisy, and it even did it when I stopped at traffic lights, I would have to sit with my foot slightly on the accelerator in order to keep the revs at 1000.
What I tried once was just letting it sort itself out, which took about 3-5 mins for it to eventually stop racing, (while standing still) but then when I got in to drive it again, no sooner had I pulled away and slowed down it started its usuall tricks!
Any suggestions? Ive heard a few but just thought Il'd ask around and see if you lot could come up with anything different...

Would buying a load of samco hoses sort the problem? Ive been looking at prices over the internet, and for 6 air intake pipes its about ?120.

What do you think?

Offline davidhawkins_78

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Re:Samco hoses.
« Reply #1 on: 19 January 2004, 15:45 »
No way!!

Have a root about through older posts - you've either got an air leak - faulty ISV - dodgy hall sender - or faulty coil ...

Could be a mix of so many things - most of which have been discussed many times so happy hunting.

Definately don't get the samco hoses expecting the problem to vanish !


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Re:Samco hoses.
« Reply #2 on: 19 January 2004, 15:51 »
I had a revvy engine like that. Clean out my old ISV and stuck it back on. Also gave the inside of the airbox a clean by cleaning the metal contacts.

That sorted it.