No start...big help needed <con't>

[Dave Hord]

Huw,

Thanks for the advice (and other listers too!!)

I'll give it all a shot tonight/tomorrow and let everyone know how it turns out.

-Dave




Quoting Huw Powell <human747 at attbi.com>:

>
>
> > > > The car is flooding itself out.
> > > >
> > > > Disconnected O2 sensor, dried out plugs, retried. Same thing. Floods
> out.
>
> > > Have you tried to take any measurements, like control pressure actuator
> > > current or OXS output yet?  I realize the car needs to run for at least
> > > a few seconds to do that, but...
> >
> > No, I haven't.  I can't get the car to run more then a single crank
> revolution.
>
> try this, since it is fairly warm out it might work.
>
> do your single crank thing, that makes the cylinders wet.  Now there is
> "excess" fuel.
>
> Unplug the control pressure actuator.  Now the engine should be getting
> a fuel amount equivalent to "warm idle" (CPA current = 0 mA).
>
> crank again, a couple fo times, and see what happens.
>
> other dumb ideas... drop the cat from the front in case it is clogged.
>
> pull the rubber boot and check the airplate, if it is stuck in the "up"
> position you'd get lots of fuel.
>
> and as someone mentioned, it's a long shot and unlikely, but at least it
> is on top of the car, check the cold start valve to make sure it isn;t
> spraying continuously for some reason.  So long as it isn't stuck open,
> it can be unpluged to remove it as a variable.  Check its wiring, if the
> brown striped wire is frayed or abraded and shorted to ground somewhere
> it might run too long/too much, too.
>
> --
> Huw Powell
>
> http://www.humanspeakers.com/
>
> http://www.humanthoughts.org/
>


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