Hi All,
I have had my P38 2.5 auto for at least a week and had the common hot start issue, so purchased the "Hot Chip Fix" which seemed to sort it initially, however recently the engine has been hard to start when hot, but perfectly okay when cold. This evening, I drove to the shops about 10 miles to the shops was there about 30 minutes, engine still hot took about 10 seconds to start up, then on the return journey the engine seemed to be running okay until I had to overtake someone and the engine went to 5,000rpm then limped at 3000rpm and would not go any higher even with my foot flat on the accelerator. Managed to get home, placed the gearbox in Neutral and reved up to about 4/5000 rpm at around 4,500rpm the engine spluttered and black smoke came out the exhaust and ran fine in idle after that, took for another driver - ran okay but slow on the uptake but did not like going over 3,000rpm top speed about 50mph and now power to pull away underload on hills - could this be my injector pump saying ive had my day? Or is there anything else I could try??
Cheers
I have had my P38 2.5 auto for at least a week and had the common hot start issue, so purchased the "Hot Chip Fix" which seemed to sort it initially, however recently the engine has been hard to start when hot, but perfectly okay when cold. This evening, I drove to the shops about 10 miles to the shops was there about 30 minutes, engine still hot took about 10 seconds to start up, then on the return journey the engine seemed to be running okay until I had to overtake someone and the engine went to 5,000rpm then limped at 3000rpm and would not go any higher even with my foot flat on the accelerator. Managed to get home, placed the gearbox in Neutral and reved up to about 4/5000 rpm at around 4,500rpm the engine spluttered and black smoke came out the exhaust and ran fine in idle after that, took for another driver - ran okay but slow on the uptake but did not like going over 3,000rpm top speed about 50mph and now power to pull away underload on hills - could this be my injector pump saying ive had my day? Or is there anything else I could try??
Cheers