introduction / and plea for help

[atomic punk]

Hi,

Thought I would introduce myself, my name's Kevin and have been running a number of older cars for some years, mostly Fords.

 

Our current daily motors, 2001 Focus and '97 Fiesta 1.25 were both bought when fairly new, and have both been faultlessly reliable, but must be approaching shitehood by now I guess, with a combined mileage of nearly 220,000!

 

The Fiesta has been giving me grief recently and was wondering if anayone can help?

 

Symptoms - engine hunts and stalls at idle, and when on the move, when clutch is depressed revs continue to increase.

 

Today I have cleaned out the idle valve and checked over the vacuum hoses on inlet side - one was loose, so have cleaned and refixed it. This has improved the hunting issue but not the stalling or revving on the move, and I can still hear air being sucked in from somewhere,

 

I dont want to throw cash needlessly at replacement sensors etc in a process of elimination by replacement, does anyone have any ideas before I go any further?

 

 

Thanks in advance!

[atomic punk]

Hi,

Thought I would introduce myself, my name's Kevin and have been running a number of older cars for some years, mostly Fords.

 

Our current daily motors, 2001 Focus and '97 Fiesta 1.25 were both bought when fairly new, and have both been faultlessly reliable, but must be approaching shitehood by now I guess, with a combined mileage of nearly 220,000!

 

The Fiesta has been giving me grief recently and was wondering if anayone can help?

 

Symptoms - engine hunts and stalls at idle, and when on the move, when clutch is depressed revs continue to increase.

 

Today I have cleaned out the idle valve and checked over the vacuum hoses on inlet side - one was loose, so have cleaned and refixed it. This has improved the hunting issue but not the stalling or revving on the move, and I can still hear air being sucked in from somewhere,

 

I dont want to throw cash needlessly at replacement sensors etc in a process of elimination by replacement, does anyone have any ideas before I go any further?

 

 

Thanks in advance!

[Ross_K]

Welcome. I sympathise with your Focus ownership - I had one for two weeks. It must be the automotive equivalent of driving a fridge or some other white goods appliance.

 

As for the Fester, who knows - dodgy coil pack?

[Ross_K]

Welcome. I sympathise with your Focus ownership - I had one for two weeks. It must be the automotive equivalent of driving a fridge or some other white goods appliance.

 

As for the Fester, who knows - dodgy coil pack?

[Guest]

I'd be looking at the stepper motor and or ICV.

[Guest]

I'd be looking at the stepper motor and or ICV.

[meggersdog]

It might be the breather hose, the one with the 90 degree bend which splits on the bend and folds in on itself.

[meggersdog]

It might be the breather hose, the one with the 90 degree bend which splits on the bend and folds in on itself.

[panhard65]

You could try disconnecting the speed sensor on the gearbox as they do give trouble. There is also some wiring around the bulkhead area that gives trouble. We had an electrician come out to a fiesta with some weird faults and he was very secrative about what he done but it sorted it in no time. Other than that its just look for a leak if it has the plastic manifold they can crack or distort best way to check is have it running and spray easy start over the manifold and listen for a change in engine note. Good luck with it

[panhard65]

You could try disconnecting the speed sensor on the gearbox as they do give trouble. There is also some wiring around the bulkhead area that gives trouble. We had an electrician come out to a fiesta with some weird faults and he was very secrative about what he done but it sorted it in no time. Other than that its just look for a leak if it has the plastic manifold they can crack or distort best way to check is have it running and spray easy start over the manifold and listen for a change in engine note. Good luck with it