The starter went on the wifes puma yesterday, so I swapped it over, now to do this you have to remove the inlet manifold, to make life easy I removed the airbox and battery box... fitted it all back and now it either really strains on tickover or it stalls when slowing down, but ticks over when you start it... now I did at one point remove the pipe in the inner wing that has some sort of box attached to it that fits on the airbox thinking it would maybe help the car breath a bit better, (why run the main air feed pointing backwards in the inner wing?) but when I started it, this happend so fitted all the pipes back up... I've gone over all the wires the various sensors and connectors, and cant see anything a miss, i'm banging my head at a wall now, just wondered if anyone had any ideas? My wife quite rightly is refusing to drive it till it's sorted as it cut out halfway across a junction and lost the power steering.

My thoughts are it could be the ISCV but other than disconnect the plug I ain't touched it.

Any thoughts, advice gratefully recieved.

 

Thanx for the overwhelming responce

Anyway I think i've sorted it now

 

You can clean the ISCV out with carb cleaner if its stuck.

what was it the maf sensor on the air filter box?

 

so you lasses cat has been giving you problems ....puma

 

Air leak on inlet somewhere, split pipe or fooked gasget

 

Thanx guys... I 'think' I sorted it, it's fine for now.

In a nut shell when I got the car running I sprayed WD over anywhere where I thought there could be an air leak, and there was no apparent leak, so I checked the connectors again, disconnected the ISCV and Maf, as soon as I did the car cut out straight away, so I guesed it wasn't those.

Delving a little deeper when I took the inlet manifold off there are to nipples on the throttle body one is blocked off, the other has a pipe that goes the the fuel reg, I swapped the pipe over thinking I 'may' have replaced it on the wrong nipple, and when I took the rubber cap off the second nipple it literally fell to bits... I did a temp repair with some insulating tape, and so far so good. So i'm guessing it was a massive air leak cuased by the rubber cap being fukked.

Thanx for your suggestions tho guy's I appreciate it