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I have a freelander, it had been standing a while when I got it off a friend, so did an oil change, flushed the old petrol and so on all the usual when you get a second hand motor.
I have had it in the yard for a couple of months now, and every few days I start it up and let it run for a while, everything works as it should now, and it revs up quite rapidly and nice.
The thing is, I took it out for a drive for the first time yesterday and the first mile is was fine, pulled into fuel station and filled the tank with unleaded. Put my lights on, drove away from the petrol station and it ran like a bag of poo, no power, would not rev up, spluttering coughing and farting all at the same time. managed to get it back, but by the time I got back about 5mph for about 3 miles. steam was pouring out of the bonnet, and it was from the expansion tank.
So today, I thought it had sucked up some crap and blocked the injectors, so cleaned everything, the whole fuel system, and it ran great sitting there revving it up, letting it get hot to see if the fan came on, and it didn't.
So I tested the fan, and it works(from separate power supply to test), then I found out that if I start the car it runs perfect, if I connect the fan directly to the battery, it runs like crap again, if I just turn on the lights, it runs like crap again, if I just turn on the heater blower it runs like crap again, so it would seem if I turn anything electrical on, the engine runs useless, misfires and everything just trying to rev it.
I have been working on this now for 10 hours none stop, not even eaten anything since yesterday, my brain is now too tired to think what it could be,
So from the symptoms given, can anyone give me a diagnosis please ???
I have had it in the yard for a couple of months now, and every few days I start it up and let it run for a while, everything works as it should now, and it revs up quite rapidly and nice.
The thing is, I took it out for a drive for the first time yesterday and the first mile is was fine, pulled into fuel station and filled the tank with unleaded. Put my lights on, drove away from the petrol station and it ran like a bag of poo, no power, would not rev up, spluttering coughing and farting all at the same time. managed to get it back, but by the time I got back about 5mph for about 3 miles. steam was pouring out of the bonnet, and it was from the expansion tank.
So today, I thought it had sucked up some crap and blocked the injectors, so cleaned everything, the whole fuel system, and it ran great sitting there revving it up, letting it get hot to see if the fan came on, and it didn't.
So I tested the fan, and it works(from separate power supply to test), then I found out that if I start the car it runs perfect, if I connect the fan directly to the battery, it runs like crap again, if I just turn on the lights, it runs like crap again, if I just turn on the heater blower it runs like crap again, so it would seem if I turn anything electrical on, the engine runs useless, misfires and everything just trying to rev it.
I have been working on this now for 10 hours none stop, not even eaten anything since yesterday, my brain is now too tired to think what it could be,
So from the symptoms given, can anyone give me a diagnosis please ???
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