JaseTheTaff Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 Hi all, I have a very strange issue I need some help with, Me and a mate fitted a new gearbox to my Glanza V a few days ago and all went very smoothly until I tried to start the car afterwards. The car fires up fine but then coughs and splutters and cuts out. There's also a load of white smoke coming out the exhaust and a strong spell of petrol. now if I start the car and rev hard it'll stay alive until I stop revving but if I don't rev straight away the accelerator goes straight to the floor. Now we've ruled out a few things like we know there's nothing blocking the pipe work to the turbo and it's defiantly getting enough fuel. There was a chunk taken out of the HT lead and I have another on the way but I'm not sure this would have anything to do with it. Now just to warn everyone my mate is shit hot on engines and such where as I acted mainly as chief spanner passer so I may take a little while responding to any suggestions as I'll be passing them on to him to try. As it stands I've only been a Glanza owner for about 3 months and the cars been off the road for 1 of them and the rest of the time the gearbox was on it's way out so I'm really hoping to get this sorted soon so I know what it's like to drive a healthy Glanza! Any help or suggestions are always appreciated Cheers Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StuDoc 72 Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 You've left off an earth Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JaseTheTaff Posted December 8, 2016 Author Share Posted December 8, 2016 You've left off an earth Tried that one mate. checked the earth and used a jump lead to create an earth as well and still nothing. thanks though Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fordie_glanzaV Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 I'd go through and check all connections around gearbox area.. make sure they clean and u ain't caught any... temp sensor being 1. Very brittle and will cause u starting issues.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JaseTheTaff Posted December 8, 2016 Author Share Posted December 8, 2016 I'd go through and check all connections around gearbox area.. make sure they clean and u ain't caught any... temp sensor being 1. Very brittle and will cause u starting issues.. Yeah that's next when we both have a day off is go back through it. Would it be the temp sensor if the car starts but then cuts out? thanks man Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fordie_glanzaV Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 I will cause it to over fuel like. Had mine go and I could start car and run like shit till was warm.But I'd go through the everything and check it all twice.. make sure everything is earthed correctly. When I rebuIlton mine I had starting issues. Turned out to be crap earth even thow was all cleaned down with new bolts Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JaseTheTaff Posted December 8, 2016 Author Share Posted December 8, 2016 I will cause it to over fuel like. Had mine go and I could start car and run like shit till was warm.But I'd go through the everything and check it all twice.. make sure everything is earthed correctly. When I rebuIlton mine I had starting issues. Turned out to be crap earth even thow was all cleaned down with new boltsaw right cool. thanks man I'll have my butty check it out. thanks mate Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fordie_glanzaV Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 Have u done flash codes? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JaseTheTaff Posted December 8, 2016 Author Share Posted December 8, 2016 Have u done flash codes? No mate not yet. There's no lights on the dash other than the ABS which has come on but apparently that'll go once I start driving? or at least that's what I was told. I just figured that would be another problem to sort after this one Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fordie_glanzaV Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 Only from experience but I've had couple codes come up even with no light on... Worth the 2 mins to check. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JaseTheTaff Posted December 8, 2016 Author Share Posted December 8, 2016 Only from experience but I've had couple codes come up even with no light on... Worth the 2 mins to check. yeah defiantly mate. I'll get on that when I get home tonight. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fordie_glanzaV Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 I'm sure it'll be something simple mate Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JaseTheTaff Posted December 8, 2016 Author Share Posted December 8, 2016 I'm sure it'll be something simple mate I think that's the really annoying thing is it'll just be a loose wire or something daft but it's trying to find the bugger lol thanks for the advice mate really appreciate it Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fordie_glanzaV Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 No worries. Most of us here to help each other.. keep us posted lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
00joeindastarb0 Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 Check any vacuum lines going to the inlet and throttle body they might be a contributing factor Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JaseTheTaff Posted December 8, 2016 Author Share Posted December 8, 2016 Check any vacuum lines going to the inlet and throttle body they might be a contributing factor I'll add that to the list to check tonight thank you mate Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StuDoc 72 Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 (edited) Did you have the coil off? Or the king lead? If its getting fuel and it ran before the gearbox change then it cant be fuel or compression. Which means the problem is ignition. Map sensor is the other side of the engine, coolant temp sensor would cause it to run rough and difficulty to start but it WOULD start and run. Which leaves power to the coil and knock sensor. Sooooooo I still think its an earth lol. Edited December 8, 2016 by StuDoc 72 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JaseTheTaff Posted December 8, 2016 Author Share Posted December 8, 2016 I have an update. after being told that my mate who was working on the car had gotten so fucked off with it he'd towed it out his drive and disappeared and thinking that the thing had given him a breakdown I receive a picture from my gf of Him, his GF and my GF all stood around my Glanza parked outside my house all fixe It turns out that right under my glove box is a apexi air flow converter that I didn't know was there and 've been told that the problem was with that. as I'm in work I won't have the full details until later but I willupdate everything when I find out exactly what it was. All I know is my friends and GF fucking suck Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JaseTheTaff Posted December 8, 2016 Author Share Posted December 8, 2016 And just wanted to add a massive thanks for all the suggestions as well. Very helpful to know what to look for in case anything like this happens again Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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