Wiring, its starting but not ticking over

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Mon Aug 01, 2011 6:34 pm

Hi i have managed to get the engine to start, but it only runs for a bit,
Have i missed a connection on the X20 wiring?

I have searched through the wiring diagram and am beginning to feel lost :(

Its a 540 manual from 94.

If start it with the throttle open its fine, is there a choke of sorts?

TIA

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Mon Aug 01, 2011 8:47 pm

does it have ews??
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Mon Aug 01, 2011 10:06 pm

20vt wrote:does it have ews??
No.
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Mon Aug 01, 2011 10:59 pm

cruise control??
if not the only thing left is the idle valve....;)
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Tue Aug 02, 2011 1:39 pm

20vt wrote:cruise control??
if not the only thing left is the idle valve....;)
I do not have that in the car, will i have to bypass the wire or summit?
Where is the idle valve?
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Wed Aug 03, 2011 8:54 am

Do you have all your vacume pipes connected? I was trying to run mine the other day after disconneting the brake servo vacume and couldn't work out why it wouldn't tick over. It did run like that but only if I kept revving it.

Other thing is fuel. I spent a while trying to get mine to start then realised I'd done about £15 worth of petrol just having it tickover in the garage!!!! Doh!!!!
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Wed Aug 03, 2011 9:27 am

8O 8O 8O thats an expensive tickover but well worth it for the sound :D

Yeah all vaccum pipes are connected, i am getting new lambdas as they may be shot.
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Sun Aug 07, 2011 11:43 am

It was a vaccum leak! a pipe i missed which a mate found, it sounds the bees, now to make the neighbours happier and make an exhaust 8)
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