Hi, 

I'm looking for some advice if anyone has any ideas.

I've recently bought a skoda pick up, which has done just over 100k.

It has stood for 12-18 months.

I've had the starter refurbished, replaced the fuel cut off solenoid and fitted a new battery.

Problem is it still turns over quite slowly and the battery leads heat up.

I'm going to bleed fuel system to ensure I've got fuel to the injectors and try to start it again.

Previous owner said it ran fine prior to being stood.

Any thoughts on slow turn over and lack of starting?

 

Thanks Dave 

You didn't tell us if the car ever started when you bought it. Any test drive? Or did you buy it on trust?

A car that stood so long needs at least fresh fuel. Bleeding too. Then change the oil and coolant for safety.

 

Turn the engine manually to be sure it is not seized.

A slow turn over and hot battery leads means excessive mechanical load or bad starter.

Lack of starting is difficult to diagnose now without first having the engine turning over normally. I could list a lot of possible electrical/fuel/mechanical related reasons but it is your duty to fix the turn over issue then gather more data.

@westie606 - As Ricardo says or at least implies.

 

1. Check the battery has 12v across the terminals after standing at least overnight. If not, suspect a bad battery.
2. Once the battery itself is proven good, check the battery terminals, starter heavy duty terminal and engine Earth.

Thanks for the advice gents.

The car had not moved for some time before I bought it.

Will try what you suggest and report back.

Hi, tried all suggested and car still will not start.

I even put new battery leads on.

When bleeding system only got fuel from 3 and 4 injectors but engine still turning over over slowly

Why did the car stand for so long? Usually a pickup is a working horse... unless something (very) bad happened to the engine.

What is the oil level on the dipstick?

My impression is the engine is seized/rusty from standing (at least). Pour a spoon of engine oil on top of each piston. You can use WD40 too if you want.

@westie606 - As Ricardo says, except that I'd use a desert spoonful of diesel as a releasing agent. If it works, the engine will be smokey when it first fires, until the diesel burns off.

One other thing that might help is to remove temporarily the ribbed V-belt to isolate other potential seized rotating parts.

 

 

Edited 12 June, 20197 yr by RicardoM

On 12/06/2019 at 14:11, KenONeill said:

@westie606 - As Ricardo says, except that I'd use a desert spoonful of diesel as a releasing agent. If it works, the engine will be smokey when it first fires, until

On 12/06/2019 at 22:24, RicardoM said:

One other thing that might help is to remove temporarily the ribbed V-belt to isolate other potential seized rotating parts.

 

 

the diesel burns off.

 

Hi, thanks for the advice. Will inject some diesel into the bores and remove the drive belt.

Then report what happens.

This car was cheap £200 and came with wings and a sill.

It needs mountains of welding, which I'm doing but the owner said it ran great (100k).

The engine was full of oil and it turned when I first viewed it.

We will get there, thanks again Ken and Ricardo.