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rishi
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Sun Sep 14, 2008 11:34 am

hi everyone the cab we just bought drove really nice but as my dad always dous he wanted it serviced and timing belt changed, so he had it done and it drove like shit, no power n misfiring, then the garage said change the lamda sencor and ht leads, did that but still no joy. then we had to change the air flow meter, better now but still not right, wen we bought the car u couldn't tell the engine was running now its quite loud and its hunting for revs, any ideas??? the afm was seccond hand btw
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Sun Sep 14, 2008 11:36 am

did he time up the engine correctly when changing the timing belt???
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Sun Sep 14, 2008 11:41 am

think so beacuse i asked and he said "ye i'm not blind" lol
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Sun Sep 14, 2008 11:43 am

:lol: just it seems strange if everything was cool till it was done, id be double checking :?
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Sun Sep 14, 2008 11:44 am

thats what i thought, now my dads givin me evils because i told him to buy it lol, anything i can do to sort it?
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Sun Sep 14, 2008 11:46 am

check the timing :lol:
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Sun Sep 14, 2008 11:51 am

lol just with a timing light/gun???
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Sun Sep 14, 2008 11:53 am

id be checking the timing marks etc, did u dad mark it up?? check his markings.
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