Well, the consensus for here and other forums was that this is an HT
fault, so even though I thought the HT had been looked at sometime ago
by our garage, I toodled off down this road.
I flipped off the distributor cap and there were some hefty build-ups
on the contacts so I scrapped these off and cleaned them with a bit of
fine sand paper and did the same for the rotor arm. No joy, in fact it
seemed to make things worse!
So I went off an bought a new rotor arm and dizzy cap and installed,
but only after making the basic mistake of pulling all the leads off
and not remembering the firing order or rotor arm rotation (moppet).
After this was looked up a a local garage opposite the motor factor's
we back in business, but still with a misfire.
Therefore, that leaves plugs, leads and coil. I was sure that the
leads were replaced by our garage but even so, I had limited tools
with me to thought that that would be the next move. One set of leads
latter (this time carefully replaced one at a time!) and bingo – no
more misfire.
It just goes to show that servicing does not always pay to be done a
garage! Thanks for every one who suggested HT side of things. At least
it has saved me the cost of an diagnosis at the Ford dealers next
week.
"SteveB" <sbrads@nildramDOTcoDOTuk> wrote in message news:<paadnfjsKYE-5crfRVn-oQ@pipex.net>...
> "Pete Smith" <pete_news@lethe.org.uk> wrote in message
> news:MPG.1cc0e3b4280e5aad9896a0@usenet.plus.net...
> > In article <56a81752.0504080838.23ecff75@posting.google.com>, swin@fab-
> > sas.co.uk says...
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> This problem has been bugging me for ages. I have a 1.8 CVH that
> >> exhibits a misfire problem and high load conditions at low revs. (E,g
> >> pulling up a steep hill in second, or even just flooring it in third
> >> with the engine at about 1500 rpm). It's like the advance is way off -
> >> but of course there is no manual adjustment of the advance. Releaseing
> >> the throttle and reapplying sometimes clears the problem and when she
> >> picks up she flys (as best a 1.8 CVH can fly!)
> >>
> >> I have bypased the fuel seperator, chnaged the ECS module and crank
> >> sensor (albiet with second hand parts), checked it over on some
> >> crypton tunning kit (which checks out fine), even changed the fuel
> >> pump push rod.
> >>
> >> Anyone have any ideas?
> >
> > Sounds like the problem 2.0 Mondeos have, which is a misfire (normally at
> > high revs) under load.
> >
> > New plugs, leads, and plug gap less than the recommended gap solved it.
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > Pete.
>
> It's the classic symptoms of a weak spark so I would tend to agree. If not,
> then ignition coil.
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