Possible fueling issue?

[yellowbelly]

Recently mentioned that my car does not always start first time and often i need to give the throttle a bit of pumping to get it to fire up.

This is not all the time but only ever happens when left parked up over night.

It got MOT'd last week and didn't do too well on the emmisions.

i'm starting to wonder if something may be up with the fueling?

I can hear the fuel pump sound when starting incase anyone asks.

thoughts?

 

[caister]

Could be the O-Ring on the fuel pipe that connects to the fuel rail. Mine was leaking and was hard to start in the morning as all the fuel pressure had been lost.

 

[yellowbelly]

Could be the O-Ring on the fuel pipe that connects to the fuel rail. Mine was leaking and was hard to start in the morning as all the fuel pressure had been lost.

excuse my ignorance but i have no clue as to what the o ring is?

 

[yellowbelly]

Can someone shed some light on this, is it something i can go and check on my lunch by just pocking my head in

 

[yellowbelly]

Can someone shed some light on this, is it something i can go and check on my lunch by just pocking my head in

would be very grateful if someone could point me in the right direction on this one???????

 

[jaysjetski]

well you would need to remove the fuel rail guard. then follow the fuel pipe into the injector rail.

 

[yellowbelly]

Cheers jayjetski

The plot thickens now....

Yesterday morning after leaving my house on the way to Castle Combe i started heading up a hill about a mile up the road.

I was in 4th heading up it when all of a sudden the car juddered, felt like i had just ran out of fuel (not that i've ever experienced that) and the throttle was barely doing anything so i couldn't control the power.

i dropped into 3rd and tried to carry on but it there was no change, it was only when i put it down into 2nd (by this point i had slowed quite an amount) and put my foot down that the juddering cleared and all power etc was regained.

it worried me for a minute as i though i was going to conk out on the hill.