Zer0d Posted May 12, 2007 Share Posted May 12, 2007 Damn I'm really starting to dislike this car. Today I decided to take her out for a spin, she started up nice, idled perfect all in all, a good start. Since she was low on fuel I took her to the closes gas station. As I got there she started sputtering like she had no fuel. Close call I thought. So I put a few gallons in, and go to start her. Nothing. After a few cranks I start smelling gas. I figured it was the lines around my fuel filter, a previous problem area, it wasn't. It was coming from my exhaust. So I decide to let her sit, and try again, no go. I decided to pull the plugs and see if i could flush out a bit. All four were covered in gas. I crank a few times, re-insert the plugs, she tried to fire once. So I went and got new plugs, tried a few tricks from the mechanic I talked to and she started! Firing unevenly (major engine rocking @sub 2k rpm). Checked my spark plug wires, all are making good contact, but still ran like crap and took a while to start every time i let it die. Wouldn't idle either. So I start to cautiously drive her home (about a quarter of a mile) she died when I had to stop on the last 100 feet. So I tried to get her moving again, no go. Completely flooded again. So, anyone have any ideas on what I can do? I'm getting real frustrated with this car. I wanna keep her but dang....anyone need a turbo parts car? :\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4x4_Welder Posted May 12, 2007 Share Posted May 12, 2007 First, check the fuel pressure regulator. If there is fuel in that vacuum line, it's bad and is the source of your issues. If that's not the case, you will need to establish if the injectors are sticking, or if the computer is dumping fuel in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skip Posted May 12, 2007 Share Posted May 12, 2007 weak spark from the coil could be the ignition amplifier power transistor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloyale Posted May 12, 2007 Share Posted May 12, 2007 When the coolant temp sensor fails, espescially if it fails *open*, then the ECU will never enter closed loop operation. It would continue to enrich fuel trying to ruin what it sees as a cold engine. Also It wuold not use feedback from the 02 sensor because it doesn't use that data till it's *warm*. This is what the FSM flowchart would suggest for flooding and stalling after warm up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daeron Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 Your distributor rotor screw IS intact, right??? check to make sure you have nice, blue spark.. my first clue that I needed plugs was noticing (just before I ripped my arm away from the engine bay from the pain of X,000 volts; dont touch any other part of the car when checking your spark out of the plug) that the spark coming out of the spark plug was YELLOW and not BLUE. Pull codes, and if you haven't already investigate the coolant temp sensor and its connection as Gloyale mentioned. For SOME reason you are (obviously) getting too much fuel, or not enough spark to ignite that fuel. You need to rule out the things that are easy to rule out (CTS forcing the ECU to give too much fuel) and then check the things that are easy to check (dizzy rotor, cap, quality of spark, etc) do you have the FSM? http://www.ch601.org/engines.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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