Kingpin Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 i just bought an EA falcon wagon and it drives nice till u put your foot down. anything over about 2000 rpm and it seems to choke and bog down.... tried adjusting the timing last night and got it so that it will now rev freely in park but still does the same thing under any sort of load... i can drive it anywhere, even up the gorge, thanks to the massive amount of torque these engines make but would like to be able to over take and not take 10 minutes to get to 100km on the motorway! im thinking it might be the mechanical or vacuum advance??? anyone got any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyteler Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Possibly just moisture in the dizz, and they're a cunt to get at too if it's the engine I'm thinking of. The old man has an ED Fairmont, fuel glutton that it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
84_S12 Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 The ecu could be in limp home mode, try and get fault codes out of it if you can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shizzl Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 is the dizzy the type with a module?if so give it a clean with crc and dry it... if not...then disregard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingpin Posted July 29, 2009 Author Share Posted July 29, 2009 is the dizzy the type with a module?if so give it a clean with crc and dry it...if not...then disregard what will the module look like? i have been driving it for a week. starts first pop. does 120-130 on the motorway with ease...once it gets there lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
84_S12 Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Stupid Ford ignition modules, all to save ten bucks a car.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shizzl Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 all models kind of differ...im not too familiar with the ea.. but my xf and xe dizzyz have a mdole under a alloy plate.. with a few wires coming out of it... modules are known to crap out especially after heavy rain... water sits under my module,and messes with the earthing etc.. also check your leads they may be cracked Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingpin Posted July 29, 2009 Author Share Posted July 29, 2009 all models kind of differ...im not too familiar with the ea..but my xf and xe dizzyz have a mdole under a alloy plate.. with a few wires coming out of it... modules are known to crap out especially after heavy rain... water sits under my module,and messes with the earthing etc.. also check your leads they may be cracked cool ill try that...tho would that make it run crap under load...or just all of the time? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shizzl Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 yup...one of many things that can make it do that... my stocky did it for a bit till i figured out why... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cletus Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Inspect your fuel filteration device. Probably full o shyte thereby reducing the large amount of fuel flow a falcon needs to move itself anywhere Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leebo3 Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Sorry to spam but thats really how a good wagon should behave according to the wagoneers protocol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingpin Posted July 29, 2009 Author Share Posted July 29, 2009 Sorry to spam but thats really how a good wagon should behave according to the wagoneers protocol. lol...im sweet then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RT Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 The EA's were always a problem... mainly in the electrical department. My EBII's never missed a beat but everyone I know with an EA has had strange issues with electrical faults. You should take off the idle-air valve thingy that sits ontop of the throttlebody. It'll no doubt be full of black shit. Clean it out using meths and a small wire brush and rags, soak a small bit of rag in meth and poke it all around inside it. Put it back together and it can make a massive difference to driveability.. mainly in idle department though. Or get an EB wags and you'll never have any probs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingpin Posted July 30, 2009 Author Share Posted July 30, 2009 The EA's were always a problem... mainly in the electrical department. My EBII's never missed a beat but everyone I know with an EA has had strange issues with electrical faults. You should take off the idle-air valve thingy that sits ontop of the throttlebody. It'll no doubt be full of black shit. Clean it out using meths and a small wire brush and rags, soak a small bit of rag in meth and poke it all around inside it. Put it back together and it can make a massive difference to driveability.. mainly in idle department though. Or get an EB wags and you'll never have any probs. hmmmm...anyone got a eb they wanna sell me for 1000 bux or near that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xsspeed Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 Have you got your heart set on the box-car? If not get an ef and never worry about distributors. Some people have issues with them, but mine was faultless till the poor girl got rammed from behind Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingpin Posted July 30, 2009 Author Share Posted July 30, 2009 id like something newer...or older...lol dont have the cash atm...need a wags as i am starting another small business and need it for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unclejake Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 Do the heater controls all work? If not you may have a vacuum leak from the hose that falls off right behind the head.... but electrics is more likely In other news I might have seen you (not that I have ever met you) standing around a VN Commodore outside the Island Bay supermarket a couple of weeks ago. I think a BMX bike was involved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingpin Posted July 30, 2009 Author Share Posted July 30, 2009 Do the heater controls all work? If not you may have a vacuum leak from the hose that falls off right behind the head.... but electrics is more likelyIn other news I might have seen you (not that I have ever met you) standing around a VN Commodore outside the Island Bay supermarket a couple of weeks ago. I think a BMX bike was involved. lol yeah that was me! how did u know?...i sold the commy for the wagon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unclejake Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 I dunno. I just drove past and there was this dude in skateboard kind of clothes with a goatee yacking to some other dude beside the car and I just thought ' I wonder if that is Kingpin'? TBH I had assumed you were polynesian for some reason until I saw you Buggered if I know why I thought it might be you. I didn't even know you had a VN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingpin Posted July 30, 2009 Author Share Posted July 30, 2009 I dunno. I just drove past and there was this dude in skateboard kind of clothes with a goatee yacking to some other dude beside the car and I just thought ' I wonder if that is Kingpin'? TBH I had assumed you were polynesian for some reason until I saw you Buggered if I know why I thought it might be you. I didn't even know you had a VN man thats classic! I guess its kinda obvious where the kingpin thing stems from then huh!? big ass white guy...gotta get back into the gym...lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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