Tranny pervs please...

[KruJoe]

help!

It's my sister...

She has an ex-plasterer's SWB van on a V plate that she uses for the markets.

It has become embarrassing, its get up and go has got up and gone. Occasionally it is fine (usually when it is cold), but it has become increasingly slow. At its worse, she said it slowed to 40 on the motorway on the flat, and she had to go down the gears to keep it moving.

In the logbook it says it is 2496cc Transit 80 SWB if that helps. Un-blown, by the way. It's showing just 120-odd thousand, but most of those will have been roughly driven I would guess. I'm sure she'll have had the oil done in the six months or so she's had it. She hasn't noticed any change in mpg, and I forgot to ask if there is any smoke, but she'd have mentioned that if she'd seen it.

She's had it to her local mechanic who just put in a new air filter. That's made no difference...

I suggested a fuel filter, any ideas you lot?

One thought, do these have a valve on the air inlet to control warm/cold air going in? Could that be at fault?

She lives an hour away unfortunately...

Thanks in advance.

[red5]

Start with a fuel filter deffo. Try running it with fuel cap off - see if that helps.

[Station]

Just needs a service, the poor thing sounds like it's strangulated!

[ChinaTom]

Saw that thread title and feared Krujoe may have been out of Thailand too long.

[trigger]

I thought the same thing!

[KruJoe]

Thank you already!

Saw that thread title and feared Krujoe may have been out of Thailand too long.

Ha! Made you click, dinnit!

 

Just spoke to the sis again.

No smoke to report.

She only took it in for a service when it started playing up, but her man said the fuel and oil filters "looked like they'd just been done" so he didn't bother, and just did the air filter.

She tends to run it to the red before she puts a tenner or so in, so I said if there was plenty of crud sloshing about in the bottom, she could soon clog up a new filter. Would that be about right?

[Milford Cubicle]

I've yet to clog up a fuel filter by running a tank to the bottom.

Might be air in the fuel lines?

[Cavcraft]

My money is on the injectors. Crack each one a smidge (one at a time) then turn engine over for a few seconds. Tighten back up, move on to the next one.

Next up replace fuel filter with a genuine Ford one, a lot of after market ones are dog shit and not worth buying.