Car wouldnt start.....Solved .....but something never checked. (Photo)

[Sprackers]

Car was running fine but I stopped to check under the bonnet.

Fiddled around a bit and

Jumped back in the car and it wouldn't start?. It turned over fine but wouldn't start??????

I hadn't disconnected anything or moved anything.

Bizarre.

So over the next hour we checked everything as we all do.

Spark
Fuel flow
Fuel Pump
Distributor
Battery
Earth
Leads
Plugs
Changed condenser
Points

Basically checked everything, everything worked fine but no joy starting.

Stumped, until I took the air-filter off and looked down inside the air intake and I noticed the little flap (I don't know the proper word for it) was closed as if I had the choke pulled right out.!!!!!

I checked INSIDE the car and NO the choke was pushed right in???

This was why the car wouldn't start.

The reason why the flap was closed was because the mounting bracket of the choke cable (right under the air-filter) where it goes back and forth over time had worked itself loose. See photo

When I fiddled around under the bonnet, I obviously knocked the bracket and the flap closed by itself.

All it needed was to tighten the screw up (See red arrow in photo) in the middle of the bracket to hold it all in place.

Now when the choke was pushed in the flap was open and it was fine. Started first time.

It took us an hour of checking everything, and 60 seconds to mend.

Add this to your check list of reasons why your car wont start.

Good luck

Sprackers

 

[iMacThere4iAm]

Had a similar problem out in Morocco, exactly as you describe but the choke 'cable' had snapped leaving no link between the control and the flap. Once diagnosed it was an easy fix with my priceless supply of emergency coathanger wire. Drove all the way back to England with a coathanger hook sticking out under the steering wheel