hi all im new to this forum but not to fords, i own a escort gti with a silvertop engine it runs well but now and again it petrol gauge will drop way under the red and will miss fire and pop through the airfilter box it may do this one or twice a day then it will run ok to this happends again its allways got a good amount of fuel in it and never run low so have you got any ideas what it could be


thanks all kieron

 

hi mate I dont have an answer to your problem but I can help possibly. I had this problem with my Si escort and I put the fuel cleaner you get out any auto store or garage in and it sorted it. Dunno if it was possibly clogging fuel system somewhere but the stuff aint dear and worth a try?

 

cheers ill buy some today whats the best to to put in the tank? one thing i cannot understand is that it will only do it when the gauge reads low even tho its got lots of fuel in?

 

hi mate I put in redex fuel system cleaner. I put it down to fact when low you have more chance of the crap in tank getting into system but tbh am not sure why it did it but I did this and it ran great again

 

Hi chap sorry but i doubt very much that fuel cleaner will help ur problem as u said ur self that the fuel gauge drops to nothin . i would sugest u start by checking and cleaning al your earths and the condition of ur fuse box and clean ur connections , then see how it runs , oh and welcome to the site

 

r u sure ur fuel gauge is accurate and its not silly low on juice whenu actually think u got loads ?

 

no just been out to it now and its doing it again droping all the way down way under the the reserve all my lights are dim when this happends and no power realy sluggish and cuts out, BUT if i open and slam the door a few times all lights go ok and fuel gauge go back up and then got power to the engine again, what earth do i clean up as they is load aint they

 

Open and shut the door? Sounds like a bad connection or bad earth, possible earths down by the osf kick pannel loose if there are any down there and moving when you open and close the door. I know the mk5 escorts suffered with bad fuse box problems causing electrical faults but dont know if this also happened with the mk6.
If you manage to find the fault and req parts I am breaking a R reg Gti and selling off the bits if that helps.

 

im going to have a look when i get 5 mins where do i start as for looking for earths etc

 

To be honest I'm not sure off hand, can look at my gti but only once its defrosted as at the moment its burried. Would have a look behin the kick pannels. Any brown wires (i belive thats the right earth wire colour) attatched to the body should be clean and tight.

 

ill have a gander tomorrow its baffeling me now big time im starting to lose sleep over it lol