Yeah, my initial thought was that it was electrical, makes more sense to me.

 

* item number one on the to do list *

Some celebratory beers earned from the bike work imo

Plus it's a "Le Car" kinda so it only runs right certain hours/days of the week anyhow ...lol

 

Good point Mark, it's probably having a siesta or whatever the French equivalent is

 

I could tell you what the french equivalent is .... but I'd probably get in trouble. lol..

 

chit, do a compression test, youll know if she has oil leaking in a cyl., and if all is well then, mostlikely electrical, run her in the dark to see if she is arcing as well. Check your sensors like kilgor suggested, and let us know.

 

Thank's for all the replies guys.

Sorry I'm absolutely up to my eyes in it right now, which is why I took it to the garage in the first place. As soon as I clear the decks I'll follow your suggestions, but at least it's running and right now it'll have to wait.

Glad of the opinions though, sounded like BS to me, but wanted your thoughts on it as well.

 

50/50 says it's coil pack v's broken insulation (running to the cp)

I'll put on pint of the best on the coil pack tho ' ! (Dylan was on it too) so maybe that's
2 pints on the coil pack v's Petes cracked insulation (grounding) is Pete willing to back it up with a pint of JJ (Jungle Juice) ?

We might have to start up a virtual bar tab thread for these kinds of question & answers contests ???? eh ???

For non beer drinkers ..... kaliber or odouls etc would work too !

 

You boys couldn't handle our local "Jungle Juice"
Made of cane sugar, 80% proof. It's good for cleaning road rash too
Being a French car, it may just be the weather
It's prob one of the three, dizzy, coil or insulation.

 

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

he's dead wrong on the JJ stuff ya know

 

Sorry to disagree but I think form the sounds of it that it is the head gasket.

They can leak in one direction and the symtoms are not always the same. There are different ways they can fail. They can act like a reed valve passing oil, coolant or compressing in one direction.

(1) Oil to water jacket 1-way <--foamy gray oil in coolant
(2) Water to oil 1-way <--grayish oil due to coolant
(3) Oil to water 2-way <--both the above
(4) Oil to cylinder 1-way <--burning oil out the exhaust
(5) Cylinder to oil 1-way <--oil blowing out the valve cover
(6) Coolant to cylinder 1-way <--steamy exhaust and coolant going down
(7) Cylinder to coolant 1-way <--bubbling coolant and expanded coolant hoses
(8) cylinder to cylinder 2-way <--loss of compression
(9) Cylinder to outside 2-way <--whiffing or hissing noise

The fact that the engine runs differently when warmed up could point to the fact that, due to expansion, the gasket is not making proper seal.
I have had this happen to me more than once.

If it were me, I would do a compression test when the engine is cold and then when hot. If the readings are quite a bit different, I would suspect the head gasket.