I think my 928 died today 
If anyone could give me any advice to ease my mind if nothing else I would be grateful! The car will be going to Paul Anderson ASAP to be sorted but for now I would like to find out roughly whats wrong etc.
Here goes:
The car has been standing for around 10 days. After spending the whole day cleaning my car inside and out and looking forward to a nice drive, I took the car (which had almost no fuel) to a garage to fill up. On the way to the garage everything seemed ok. I put in around 4-5 gallons and some Redex additive as I always do, and set off.
I got around 300-400 yeards down the road and the car just died on me. As I was on a roundabout at the time I put it in N and tried to restart whilst rolling - t wasn't having any of it so I pushed it off the roundabout and attempted to start the car. I managed to start it and it was ticking over ok, perhaps a little low though @ roughly 3-400 rpm. Whenever I tried to rev it, the car would just cut out or appear like it was going to cut out. In D, 1, 2 and R it would crawl forward as normal but when pressing the accelerator it would just try and stall. When it was rolling at around 20-30 mph foot to the floor had no power but the occasional splutter and pop of a badly misfiring engine would jerk the car forwards. Under heavy acceleration there is loads and loads of greyish smoke.
I managed to crawl home and have a quick look for anything obvious. The transmission seems ok... There is no water on the dipstick, no obvious leaks of any fluids. Also, the car was keeping a nice temperature etc and everything seemed as normal.
I'm thinking (and please tell me if I am waaay off the mark here), that my TB could have slipped a couple of teeth and retarded the timing horrendously? If this is the case, is it likely to have caused massive internal hermorrhaging? Or am I lucky? :?
What else could it be?
I am really really gutted about this and am hoping to get it sorted right away!
My car is an '83 928S 3sp Auto, with the 16V 4.7.
Thanks in advance for any advice!
Llew
**Apologies in advance for double posting this on Rennlist, 928UK.myfastforum.org and PCGB (And P-1!)**
If anyone could give me any advice to ease my mind if nothing else I would be grateful! The car will be going to Paul Anderson ASAP to be sorted but for now I would like to find out roughly whats wrong etc.
Here goes:
The car has been standing for around 10 days. After spending the whole day cleaning my car inside and out and looking forward to a nice drive, I took the car (which had almost no fuel) to a garage to fill up. On the way to the garage everything seemed ok. I put in around 4-5 gallons and some Redex additive as I always do, and set off.
I got around 300-400 yeards down the road and the car just died on me. As I was on a roundabout at the time I put it in N and tried to restart whilst rolling - t wasn't having any of it so I pushed it off the roundabout and attempted to start the car. I managed to start it and it was ticking over ok, perhaps a little low though @ roughly 3-400 rpm. Whenever I tried to rev it, the car would just cut out or appear like it was going to cut out. In D, 1, 2 and R it would crawl forward as normal but when pressing the accelerator it would just try and stall. When it was rolling at around 20-30 mph foot to the floor had no power but the occasional splutter and pop of a badly misfiring engine would jerk the car forwards. Under heavy acceleration there is loads and loads of greyish smoke.
I managed to crawl home and have a quick look for anything obvious. The transmission seems ok... There is no water on the dipstick, no obvious leaks of any fluids. Also, the car was keeping a nice temperature etc and everything seemed as normal.
I'm thinking (and please tell me if I am waaay off the mark here), that my TB could have slipped a couple of teeth and retarded the timing horrendously? If this is the case, is it likely to have caused massive internal hermorrhaging?
Or am I lucky? :? What else could it be?
I am really really gutted about this and am hoping to get it sorted right away!
My car is an '83 928S 3sp Auto, with the 16V 4.7.
Thanks in advance for any advice!
Llew
**Apologies in advance for double posting this on Rennlist, 928UK.myfastforum.org and PCGB (And P-1!)**
