Cold stalling on escort

[andygosmore]

I've had a scan through the postings, can't see a similar problem to this. My 1995 1.6 escort is terrible when cold, it will start 1st time, drive a hundred yards, then stall whan i come to a stop. The only way i can stop it is to slow down with the handbrake and keep the revs up, around 3000 rpm.If i do let it stall, it then needs turning over for about 20 secs until it finally kicks into life. The car needs about a mile until it runs fine.

regards

[nighthawk]

Your car runs the ford EEc IV engine management system. i'd suggest you get it scanned for codes before spending too much cash on it.

sounds like a fuelling issue though, the first thing I would replace in the absence of fault codes would be the engine coolant temperature sensor.
On your build of car, it's screwed into the thermostat housing.

[andygosmore]

great, I'll try the temp sensor first, only cheap. Thanks for that

[i_alan_i]

Is it a CVH? Probably be the crank position sensor, it's a dead common problem - it get magnetised, gets confused and causes hassle.
Disconnect it, leave it a couple minutes then plug it back in, bit of luck it'll be ok.
The sensor is on the front of the block, under the exhaust manifold.

good luck

al.

[nighthawk]

Should be the 90Ps zetec 16V power unit in this car, CVH was tweaked and renamed PTE and reduced to 1.4 configuation.