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paulcra wrote:

The front brake caliper has been taken apart cleaned and greased. Still sticks.

Open line and let fluid out at master cylinder and it releases. Is it the master
cylinder?

Start engine in garage and run for your life. The fumes burn your eyes very badly
and it is not healthy to breath. Opened Air valve, looks corroded. clean with no
improvement in performance.

Drive to work and back and use half a tank of gas. 22 mile round trip.

Check voltage at battery. Gauge is very close to meter reading.:jumper:

Found the website yesterday. Love it. Thank you in advance

Paul.:jumper:

Paul, welcome to the best Wing site going..

You ask a few questions..

The front brake caliper has been taken apart cleaned and greased. Still sticks.
Open line and let fluid out at master cylinder and it releases. Is it the master
cylinder?

Probably is in the master cylinder or hand lever. It sounds like either the take-up port in the master cylinder is plugged, or the internal M/C piston isn't returning enough to uncover the take-up port, or the hand lever is bent or incorrect so not allowing the piston to return.

Start engine in garage and run for your life. The fumes burn your eyes very badly
and it is not healthy to breath. Opened Air valve, looks corroded. clean with no
improvement in performance.

That sounds like a carb problem. You will probably have to pull the carbs, take them apart & do a through cleaning. You might get lucky & get by with just cleaning the pilot jet passages & sometimes that can be done by pulling the pilot jet needles without removing the carbs then spraying carb cleaner into the pilot jet openings.

Drive to work and back and use half a tank of gas. 22 mile round trip.

That might or might not be a problem. You really need to give us a miles per gallon reading over a few tankfuls to be sure you have a problem. With the above possible carb problems it's very possible you have a problem there though.

Check voltage at battery. Gauge is very close to meter reading.:jumper:

You didn't give us an actual voltage reading but with your bouncing icon it must be good.

Twisty

 

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paulcra wrote:

The Ltd is injected. The meter shows 14.2 volts, if i remember corectly.

Went to start it and it blew 30 amp fuse by the battery. More corectly it looks to have just broke.
:12ltd:

Thank you for the welcome and help.

Paul, I guess I should have paid attention the the LTD part.

On that poor fuel economy question? You might start with checking the air cleaner & intake tract for a dirty filter or mouse nest in the intake tract. If it can't geta full amount of air it will run rich & make your eyes water.

If all OK in the intake area then it's a work your way through the fuel pressure, injector test, emission system test, EI system sensor test, etc. Any number of things from a faulty TPS to a coolant sensor can really upset the running mixtures.

Another place to look is the ign coil voltage, low voltage to the ign coils (not a rare occurrence on the older Wings) can give poor running (especially at low engine RPM as the system voltage is lower there due to low alternator output).

Maybe even check the spark plug wire resistors for too high of a resistance.

You will probably need a GOOD service manual then work your way through the EFI part to check all the EFI components.

Twisty