360 GLEi- poor when cold, bogs down at low revs etc

Post by **Stavros** » 28 Feb 2007 04:49 pm

As per title, sometimes even stalls.

Fine and lovely once totally warmed up.

Whats up, or am I just cursed with these 360s?

Post by **SteveP** » 28 Feb 2007 05:12 pm

They're all like that

But shouldn't stall, service items?

Post by **Chris_C** » 28 Feb 2007 06:05 pm

They are rough for the first 30 secs as Steve says. Only other thing than service items I can think of is I seem to remember it was a Mk2, so engine will need to be run on super unleaded, 95 could help in the cause of rough running, especially on LE-jets dodgy startup.

Post by **pettaw** » 28 Feb 2007 08:44 pm

Aux air valve isn't working properly. Check and clean.

Post by **Stavros** » 28 Feb 2007 11:36 pm

I only run it on Optimax so its not that.

Ill try the aux air valve thing.

The stalling is pretty rare, but it happened 3 times this morning. Twice pretty immediate when stopping, and once after about 3mins of idling.

Idle speed is a bit low anyhow, so adjustment should fix that.

Oh, and whats the (!) symbol mean?

Ive already named it the drift light as it only seems to come on when something "interesting" is happening, lol.

I thought it was to show the wheels had lost traction, but it did it during the odd quick gearchange and even flickered on when i was accelerating in 1st up a very steep hill.

Doesnt seem to affect anything, but it lights up...

Post by **petefarrell360** » 28 Feb 2007 11:42 pm

Brake fluid reservoir level is low I believe for that light to be coming on with those driving characteristics, especially hard acceleration.

Pete

Post by **SteveP** » 28 Feb 2007 11:50 pm

C'mon... pics of this GLEi

Post by **Carl** » 01 Mar 2007 01:02 am

My GLT runs quite rough when you first start it up. My mate though it had a lairy cam as it was so lumpy at idle!!

Anyways, I put a new dizzy cap and rotor arm on mine a while back, and although it nowhere near cured it, it certainly helped. So if you haven't its definately worth checking them out (along with plugs and leads).

Post by **foggyjames** » 13 Mar 2007 01:36 am

The main problem is LE-Jetronic being a festering heap...

I'd put a pint on the 'drift light' being low fluid or a faulty connection to the level switch, etc.

cheers

James