v8 cutting out?

[bambamjj]

Has anyone experienced there V8 cutting out intermitently?

The orange warning light comes on only for a second or two and there is clicking behind the dash, sounds like a relay activating?  but she will after dying for a second or two continue to run OK.  This happens through out the driving range, and despite that she is running top form at the moment.

Had a Sierra which had similar, ended up dying completely after much searching it was the Fuel pump relay but dont want to get to s stage where im stranded?

Please help

Jon

[H]

when my V8i rangie was cutting out (like someone just switched the engine off) even happened whilst under load, it turned out to be the ingition amplifier on the side of the dizzy, took me months of frustration and changing almost everything to find and sort this one.

H

[Damonski]

My Volvo 740 did a similar thing, and it was something in the dizzy, cant remember now what exactly.

Scared the life out of me the first time it happened, was trundling down the motorway and the engine misses and backfires, huge bang :)

My brother was following straight behind us. Never forget the look on his face -->  :shock:  <-- is sort of it .  After a little sit on the hard shoulder it started again and ran fine.  However previous to that event it had started to do what you describe, stumbling, then picking up, I never thought much of it, maybe a blocked injector or something.  Well worth checking out in more detail before you get stranded.

[petergalileo]

Clickin relays suggests a loose connection rather than a faulty component.  

Whats the orange warning light for ?

[Range Rover Blues]

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That one in Orange?  it's the ECU warning light.  The clicking sounds like a relay, if it clicks at the same time as the light flashes it's a fault of some sort within the EFi.  Can't tell you much more without more details.

[petergalileo]

Doesnt the ECU on landys have fault codes that can be read ?

[Range Rover Blues]

It does indeed but not by you or I, it's a dealer job for the EFi ECU.

[bambamjj]

Thats all i need :(, getting grief at the moment about how much i want to spend on her as it is.  Let alone MOT in Feb!  could some one like Keith Gotts or Brooklyn 4x4 deal with it or has it got to be a LandRover main agent?

Anyone want a Disco, getting fed up with the grief, get in from work and it is "here you have the kids ive had them all day" :(

In fact any body want an instant family, Wife & 2 Kids free to good home  :)

[petergalileo]

If it were me, I would start her up, and start wiggling wires and connectors ! intermittant faults are a sod to find even with £1000s worth of specialist equipment !

I would try and find out what the relay that clicks controls, that would be a good start !

Failing that, Don't advertise the wife and kids on ebay, its against there livestock policy apparently !  :lol: Thats what my friend was told when he tried it !

Peter

[bambamjj]

I am willing to throw in a years supply of nappies, if that could persuede any one (Spelling!) for the kids that is? Can supply photo's of wife if wanted.

Thanks gonna say ive got to work over christmas and hide round corner and fit all the little service bits and pieces ive bought.  crate of beer, jobs a gooden.

Thanks for help every one will let you know what i find.

(Stupid question but what does "SWMBO" stand for i see on some threads)

[petergalileo]

she who must be obeyed

[bambamjj]

What is the ignition amplifier isit the little thingy next to the coil with the lead coming out of it -[/img] or is it the sqaure thing attached to the sied of the Distributor with a secured lead attached to it, which means if i replace it the distributor has to come out.

[petergalileo]

Well on mine the ignition amplifier is attached to the side of the distributor.  I have a discovery 1 though.

[bambamjj]

Mines a 200 with a 3.9 v8 and it is on the side.

Gonna check connections and replace Fuel pump relay first see how it goes from there.