well the strange prob i had a couple of months back appeared on saturday after driving through a puddle.. well i was going slow and it was nearly a foot deep...
but......
last time i replaced leads, looked at this and that and replaced a dodgey fuel pump relay... left it for a few days and problem went...only to return just as ive paid to go drag racin
spluttered home, managed to get it started to get to hardcor3s on sunday (
) then got it home, went ot goto work last night and it ran like sh!t , coughin spluttering etc and some times cutting out... wasnt like a normal misfire more like it was running out of fuel or something even though i could here the pump running this time....
got it home and had a look today when i got up... cleaned all plugs/leads/multiplugs/sockets/ecu plug the lot with wd40 still the same..... thought id clean the maf so i removed the k+n and whipped it off.. all looked ok but i cleaned it with solvent spray anyways.., under where the maf sits theres a strange little vaccume pump type thing.. the socket on this was p!ss wet through with water, so i cleaned etc, the pump connects to the inlet manifold via a rubber pipe, then from this little pump it goes to some kind of canister under the drivers inner wing near the horn.. then from that to a pipe which goes all the way to the fuel tank??? wtf?? i can only assume its some kind of breather /recycle pump type thing, and i reckon its stopped working causing a vaccume in the tank so fuel pressure is low (misfire) or none at all (cutting out), i disconnected the pump from the inlet tube and plugged it and it ran fine, then i reconnected and the pump started clicking then ran fine also... so i think thats what my trouble is... its working now but im going to either relocate the breather pipe for the tank like a normal vented car, and remove pump and plug hole or find out what this cannister is and see if thats the prob??
any one else had probs with this??
