A Little Rough On Start Up

[mikej]

MK2 2.3 GHIA 2001 MANUAL ,

I seem to have developed a small problem as off late to go with all the other small problems these cars have lol . Any how my gal is lpg converted which means on startup it starts on petrol and carries out a few checks throughout the gas system together with waiting for the car to achieve 51 degrees before automatically switching to gas , the car runs as sweet as a nut on both gas and petrol and you cannot notice any difference at all between switching even manually however when starting first thing in the morning or even when the car has been left for a good few hours etc it runs rough untill warm or swiched to gas , the best way off describing this is for those of you who are old enough to remember manual chokes , it feels like driving a manual choke car on a cold morning with the choke in , you really have to feather the throttle as not to bunny hop up the road too much or too little and its as rough as a bears behind untill its warm then its fine , it almost feels like its runnig with a misfire however all plugs and leads are good and its not exactly under load when just started ! and if i boot it it respnds without any issues ?

 

Anyone any ideas or suggestions pleas???????? :)

Edited July 14, 2008 by mikej

[pav]

MK2 2.3 GHIA 2001 MANUAL ,

I seem to have developed a small problem as off late to go with all the other small problems these cars have lol . Any how my gal is lpg converted which means on startup it starts on petrol and carries out a few checks throughout the gas system together with waiting for the car to achieve 51 degrees before automatically switching to gas , the car runs as sweet as a nut on both gas and petrol and you cannot notice any difference at all between switching even manually however when starting first thing in the morning or even when the car has been left for a good few hours etc it runs rough untill warm or swiched to gas , the best way off describing this is for those of you who are old enough to remember manual chokes , it feels like driving a manual choke car on a cold morning with the choke in , you really have to feather the throttle as not to bunny hop up the road too much or too little and its as rough as a bears behind untill its warm then its fine , it almost feels like its runnig with a misfire however all plugs and leads are good and its not exactly under load when just started ! and if i boot it it respnds without any issues ?

 

Anyone any ideas or suggestions pleas???????? ;)

 

hey mike,

a bit late in the day but did u ever find the problem. I too have a gas converted 2.3 and on start up its a bit jerky till it switchesd over to lpg and then its fine. Let us know what your soloution was if any.