Hi all,
I'm still fairly new to owning a Renault 16 since inheriting it from my Dad. After a good stint at Colliers in Sydney, it has been driving like a dream - and it's been great fun! Unfortunately, I hadn't yet learnt how to interpret the fuel gauge, and this afternoon it ran out of petrol.
I got back to it with a jerry can of petrol, and then filled it up not far down the road. But it wasn't driving smoothly - it felt much rougher than before, and it wouldn't idle. I thought it just may have been that the jerry can petrol was perhaps old and that after a bit of drive it'd clear itself and get back to what it was - but it didn't. I needed to basically keep the choke open to keep it from stalling at lights (or try and catch it with the throttle when I clutched as I rolled up) - but when it did stall at a set of lights, it then took a lot of effort to start it (with quite a bit of throttle) - whereas previously it would very happily idle (once it was warm), and starting it would be easy.
So I guess I'm left wondering what I've ended up doing to the carburettor perhaps by letting it run out of fuel? Or any other suggestions? Thanks in advance for any advice!
I'm still fairly new to owning a Renault 16 since inheriting it from my Dad. After a good stint at Colliers in Sydney, it has been driving like a dream - and it's been great fun! Unfortunately, I hadn't yet learnt how to interpret the fuel gauge, and this afternoon it ran out of petrol.
I got back to it with a jerry can of petrol, and then filled it up not far down the road. But it wasn't driving smoothly - it felt much rougher than before, and it wouldn't idle. I thought it just may have been that the jerry can petrol was perhaps old and that after a bit of drive it'd clear itself and get back to what it was - but it didn't. I needed to basically keep the choke open to keep it from stalling at lights (or try and catch it with the throttle when I clutched as I rolled up) - but when it did stall at a set of lights, it then took a lot of effort to start it (with quite a bit of throttle) - whereas previously it would very happily idle (once it was warm), and starting it would be easy.
So I guess I'm left wondering what I've ended up doing to the carburettor perhaps by letting it run out of fuel? Or any other suggestions? Thanks in advance for any advice!