Outer Limits 4x4 Board

Guys,
With the near freezing conditions in NE Vic, my zook has started playing up. Vehicle is a 93 Stockman ute (Maruti) with the stock 970cc motor. Driving it in the morning its lacking power on the road barely holding 90km/hr. At full throttle it loses power, back off a little and its fine but obviously you now can't accelerate. Stop or place it in neutral and the engine either idles rough or just stalls. It always start up easy enough though and revs out okay until actually moving. Problem seems to be a morning thing as by the afternoon on the drive home its fine and will happily cruise at 100km/hr with a little left over. Any suggestions?
Cheers...
Con

at night the engine cools right down so it runs very cold in the morning making it run ruff by the afternoon it runs better because it has warmed up (i think)

CptnBarney wrote:Guys,
With the near freezing conditions in NE Vic, my zook has started playing up. Vehicle is a 93 Stockman ute (Maruti) with the stock 970cc motor. Driving it in the morning its lacking power on the road barely holding 90km/hr. At full throttle it loses power, back off a little and its fine but obviously you now can't accelerate. Stop or place it in neutral and the engine either idles rough or just stalls. It always start up easy enough though and revs out okay until actually moving. Problem seems to be a morning thing as by the afternoon on the drive home its fine and will happily cruise at 100km/hr with a little left over. Any suggestions?
Cheers...
Con

Carb icing up ..
Do you have your hot air tube thingy from the Zorst to the air cleaner .. and is it set for winter (the litte flap on the air cleaner) ??

carb freezing up perhaps. Do you still havve the pre warmer tube from ontop of the exhaust manifod to the air box and is it switched to winter driving to allow the warmer air to flow into the carb.

grimbo wrote:carb freezing up perhaps. Do you still havve the pre warmer tube from ontop of the exhaust manifod to the air box and is it switched to winter driving to allow the warmer air to flow into the carb.

You just barely reworded my post ...
I dont think the either you or I are qualified to give Zuk advice anymore ..

Thank you gents,
Pre-warmer tube is there, but no I haven't swapped over to winter mode. Jeez the old Lada didnt need that Will try it out as I'm pretty sure its still on the "Summer" setting.
Thanks...
Con

CptnBarney wrote:Thank you gents,
Pre-warmer tube is there, but no I haven't swapped over to winter mode. Jeez the old Lada didnt need that Will try it out as I'm pretty sure its still on the "Summer" setting.
Thanks...
Con

well if the "old lada" was sooooo great .. why are you now in a Zuk

CptnBarney wrote:Thank you gents,
Pre-warmer tube is there, but no I haven't swapped over to winter mode. Jeez the old Lada didnt need that Will try it out as I'm pretty sure its still on the "Summer" setting.
Thanks...
Con

ladas are from up near russia - they are meant to run in freezing temperatures.. make sure your choke is working aswell.

Just a thought. The g13b engine in the Swift has a thermo controlled summer/winter flap in the air intake on the end of the air cleaner.

From memory my earlier g10 Swift had it as well.

It probably wouldn't take much modification to make it fit on your inlet.

re Lada/Russia. I think winter in Japan is pretty cold too!

Cheers

Clive