Technical Engine suddenly stops ongoing

[purple haze]

A can of carb cleaner.

Thin wire for the jets.

Cotton buds for getting in hard to get to places.

Clean all old gasket off..don't scratch the surfaces.

A blast of pressurised air is good to blow things out.

Set of screwdrivers........and go for it. Quite simple really.

Take photos on your phone as you take it apart if your not sure.

Polish the outside..it looks pretty..

 

[firstcar-Y10]

:yeahthat:..although obviously any carb specialist would turn in his grave (don't seem to be many left) at the suggestion of poking wires through the jets and upsetting the delicate calibration.
Meanwhile back in the real world.... Just, be gentle.

 

[Rellinars]

coil replaced and problem persists but after some days testing the engine inside the garage there is a pool of dark water below the exhaust muffler. Seems there is water inside and the exhaust tail also drips water even when the engine is hot. Can all this be caused due a bad head gasket???

 

[seanx]

Yep. A bad head gasket can certainly cause such wet symptoms - if you're lucky. Unfortunately so could other (worse) thing like a cracked head/block or warped head.
For any of these problems, check that there's not water/foam in the oil on the dipstick, or that there's no oil in the radiator water.
With radiator cap off, rev the engine and look for bubbles.
Has the car been using coolant recently?
Check the spark plugs, wet cylinders would show up as messy plugs, they could even be a little corroded.

You say she cuts-out just after going up a slope with not much speed - sounds like temporary overheating squeezing the pistons!? Is the fan working, or does the coolant circulate effectively (feel the lower rad hose after 2 minutes of running - should still be cold, if your thermostat, radiator cap and radiator matrix is OK, then the lower hose should have heated up considerably after 10 minutes).

 

[Rellinars]

After replacing half engine the solution has been the distributor rotor!!!. My Fiat workshop did replace the distributor lid, sensor, ignition module and gasket but let the old rotor there. It was very damaged, probably the original one 23 years old. The problem is that I never opened the distributor assuming that it was completely updated. Now it works perfectly.
Moral: never trust a Fiat Service…