Unfortunately, there is something wrong with my Fiat 126. The AA had to tow me home.
Firstly, when starting the car from cold with the choke up (clutch depressed), I was literally kicking/pumping the accelerator to get the car started. Otherwise it would not start. It felt like there wasn't enough petrol getting into the carb. Once it started to fire up, it felt like it was running on one cylinder. Once it felt normal, with the choke still up. The idling was very uneven. It would rev high up because of the choke, then drop to almost dying, then it would rev up again wildly, then drop again to almost dying. This continued for 15 minutes of so.
When driving it, it wouldn't accelerate. Shifting from first to second is fine until you press the accelerator, and the car actually slows down, and then jumps forward. It does the same on third. Once you press the accelerator, actually slows down, like it was running out of breath, then jumps forward. It felt like it wants to accelerate, but something is stopping it.
The top speed on third was 25mph. It would not go any faster. Shifting to second, it slowed further, would not go beyond 20mph. Then it just went downhill from then on.
The car would not rev., but would happily idle. Shift to first gear, it would not rev higher than a certain point, not enough to get the car moving. Give it some more gas, it would not rev higher. The engine would just die if you try to go forward on first gear.
Proeitti recently rebuilt (due to timing chain breaking in July last year) the engine, and recently torqued down the tappets. The tappets are very noisy. Not sure what is causing it.
Any thoughts on what is wrong?
Best regards,
Angelo