Tripp
Active Member
So I have this wonderful Land Rover 90, 1987 and 2.5 petrol. I've had it since July and its been working fine, no problems. One or two things have needed to be sorted but nothing major.
Last week I did a longer drive than usual, over 2 hours worth of driving in three hours (it feels a lot in the landy) and I noticed that when I was coming up to junctions after the car had been in use for a bit, the idle tick rate was very low, and occasionally it would stall when in neutral. Thats been going on for about a week until this morning when things got a lot worse.
I seem to have lost all power. The engine starts up, ticks over but not very well, and the throttle doesn't do much. Pulling out the choke stalls the engine, and on flat groun the maximum speed I can get is about 2mph. As I needed to get home from work, I thought that 2 mph would be fine. Its usually a half hour drive but getting home late would be better than not getting home at all. So I plodded out of the car park eventually, then came to a downhill section. As I picked up speed (still in low ratio gears) the engine fired up and was working again as usual. I quickly changed to high gear ratios and first and second were fine. When I didn't have any throttle on, the engine would fizzle out, and when I was at low revs, the engine would go back to shis bull**** state where it has no power. The engine also splutters occasionaly (not so much if at all when idle, udually when I'm moving fast enough to get high revs from a low gear)
So downhill and high revs, engine is fine.
Uphill and low revs, engine hates life.
There are exhaust fumes blowing out from the engine area just under the carburettor which might be unrelated, it might be not. I Just don't know.
I took the air filter off completely and it didn't help, pulling the choke out makes things worse, the hoses all look intact but I'm not 100% sure.
Has anyone experienced anything like this before? Or any ideas of what it could be?
Last week I did a longer drive than usual, over 2 hours worth of driving in three hours (it feels a lot in the landy) and I noticed that when I was coming up to junctions after the car had been in use for a bit, the idle tick rate was very low, and occasionally it would stall when in neutral. Thats been going on for about a week until this morning when things got a lot worse.
I seem to have lost all power. The engine starts up, ticks over but not very well, and the throttle doesn't do much. Pulling out the choke stalls the engine, and on flat groun the maximum speed I can get is about 2mph. As I needed to get home from work, I thought that 2 mph would be fine. Its usually a half hour drive but getting home late would be better than not getting home at all. So I plodded out of the car park eventually, then came to a downhill section. As I picked up speed (still in low ratio gears) the engine fired up and was working again as usual. I quickly changed to high gear ratios and first and second were fine. When I didn't have any throttle on, the engine would fizzle out, and when I was at low revs, the engine would go back to shis bull**** state where it has no power. The engine also splutters occasionaly (not so much if at all when idle, udually when I'm moving fast enough to get high revs from a low gear)
So downhill and high revs, engine is fine.
Uphill and low revs, engine hates life.
There are exhaust fumes blowing out from the engine area just under the carburettor which might be unrelated, it might be not. I Just don't know.
I took the air filter off completely and it didn't help, pulling the choke out makes things worse, the hoses all look intact but I'm not 100% sure.
Has anyone experienced anything like this before? Or any ideas of what it could be?