1.25 endura engine
Had a recent problem with misfiring-solved with a new set of Ht leads-no
further problems there.
Runs fine now but as soon as I dip the clutch to change from 4 to 3, oil
light etc glows and engine cuts. Cos I'm still rolling, I just quickly let
the clutch out again and it kicks back into life.
Bloomin annoying!
Thoughts?

"Gary Styles" <flyboy (AT) hangarten (DOT) freeserve.co.uk> wrote in
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the other.


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Stuart Sharp

"Gary Styles" <flyboy (AT) hangarten (DOT) freeserve.co.uk> wrote


One thought is that you either have the Endura-E or Duratec 8v, or Zetec-SE
/ Duratec 16v.

Either way it could be a gunky idle control valve. Run a few Google
searches on how to clean it (there are some pictures of the Ka's ICV on my
website but I forget where...).

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The DervMan
www.dervman.com

Gary Styles wrote:
(1.3 endura) with sticking idle control valve - however, that'd hunt for
revs on idle; Don't think oil light ever came on, though? (SWMBO never
included that in her screaming rant, "my car's trying to kill me" report)

Hi
Had a similar prob with a Renault 21. The oil light will come on cos the
engine has stopped with the ignition on. My prob turned out to be a duff
alternator so the engine was running on a dying battery.
Weird how a common failure can manifest itself in different ways on
different cars innit!!

Gareth

"Mike Dodd" <no-address@lo0> wrote