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Old October 7th 03, 01:46 PM posted to uk.rec.cars.fuel.lpg
Austin Shackles
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Default Cherokee running rough - Any ideas

On or around Tue, 7 Oct 2003 02:03:53 +0100, "Raymond Ramsey"
enlightened us thusly:

My '95 4.0 Cherokee has an LPG conversion. There is a selector switch giving
the following options 1-Petrol..2-LPG..3-Start using Petrol automatically
switch to LPG shortly after starting. I've been advised selecting 3 is the
best option.

Cold starts do not seem to be a problem. However starting when engine is
warm either switch position 1 or 3 is murder! The engine miss-fires and runs
rough. Obviously a problem with the Petrol feed. Switching to 2 and all
seems fine (so far) as does switching to 3 after the engine has been running
for a couple of minutes.

It seems obvious the problem is running using petrol. Have any of you any
ideas on where to start looking? I assume the electrics are fine as all runs
well using LPG.


does it run continuously badly on petrol, or only for a brief period?

does it run OK on petrol when cold?

if so, then I reckon whatever it has for enrichment is sticking on. I
assume it's an injection system, in which case there'll probably be a
temperature sender somewhere to tell it the engine's cold, and allow it to
deliver more petrol. This could be a fruitful place to start looking - if
it thinks it's cold all the time, it'll be running over-rich.

either that or the actual device that delivers increased petrol (these
things are very system-dependant) could be sticking "on" - this assumes that
it doesn't do enrichment simply by doing longer fuel pulses on an EFi
system...



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