New member with bad problem

[Brett Dikeman]

At 5:45 PM -0800 11/24/02, Tigran Varosyan wrote:
>\Right now I have the fuel distributor is a giant sink. I am trying to take
>it apart and got everything off of it.

Well, I'm certainly not a CIS person(Huw is!), but I'll toss in my 2 cents.

CIS distributors are VERY touchy and if you don't have even the
Bentley, I would STRONGLY recommend you not take it apart.  They're
practically 'rube goldberg' territory; I know I wouldn't mess with
one unless I had someone helping who did know what they were doing.
You also need to keep everything VERY clean if you take things apart.

IMHO, don't go blocking everything off and changing things around;
among other things, nobody's going to know what you did and it'll
make helping you even more difficult :-)

   Rather, buy the Bentley repair manual, and just go over the engine
top to bottom and put things "right" as best you can.  There should
be some troubleshooting procedures in there as well.

  Work your way around the various sensors, solenoids, etc.  Use the
archive search(use normal google things like minus-sign to remove a
word, quotes to search for a phrase etc) to answer questions like
"how do I remove the injectors?" etc.

BTW- I know CIS is higher pressure than EFI, but 120 psi sounds very,
very high.  Sounds like a fuel pressure regulator is stuck, perhaps?

I remember you mentioned it's not your normal ride.  How old is the
gas?  It might be substantially in your interests, if the gas is old,
to drain the tank(you probably have some crud in there anyway),
change the fuel filter(if the tank is drained, good time to clean the
prescreen in the tank?), and put in fresh fuel with a bottle of
injector cleaner.

Don't forget to prefill the fuel filter- force of the fuel slamming
into an empty filter can rip the element.

Hope this helps!

Brett
PS:as Huw mentioned, be -extremely- careful when working on CIS
systems.  Injectors do a fantastic job of atomizing fuel, and there
are lots of things(static, relays, tool dropping, appliances in the
garage, worklight, etc) that can ignite vapors(which are HEAVIER than
air and do not just "go away."

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