CIS Help Needed.......loooong reply

[Bob Gregory]

--- Huw Powell <audi at humanspeakers.com> wrote:

> ...fuel pump relay ("test mode") the fuel pump will
run all the time. 
 
> I don't think that is the case with CIS-E3, just the
> turbo CIS seen in 5000's and the like.

      OK - That makes me feel better.

> ...I hear a fast clicking sound from ?

> Could be a few things, I'd suspect things like the
> electronic PCV valve - thing.

      OK, That makes me feel even better!

> ...so gas seems to be moving through the fuel
> injectors to the engine.  Any ideas?
 
> Fuel - check

     Fairly fresh Amoco Premium

> Air - ?  is plate lifting while cranking? (probably,
since this creates fuel flow as well)

     Will check this.  Question - Because I have been
experimenting with various replacement CIS parts from
my stockpile, I haven't tightened the clamp on either
end of the boot to allow frequent playing with the air
plate.  If the boot is in place but not clamped, will
there be a large enough air leak so that system won't
work?  Actually if this was true, then your cranking
test wouldn't work either.


> Spark - ?

      OK, I've got to come clean here.  This whole
mess started when I put in new plugs (NGK), cap/rotor
(Bosch OEM), and wires (Kingsborne).   The car ran
fine before these new parts, hasn't started since. 
Unknown to me at the time, somehow stupidly I put in
the wires so that the firing order was correct, but
only if the distributor rotated counterclock-wise!   
I assumed that something in the CIS had coincidentally
gone wrong (because all the ign. parts were new and
therefore functional, AND I couldn't have done
anything wrong).  As part of non-starting, the engine
was flooding - heavy fuel smell while cranking, and
very strange "feel" to the engine while cranking
(dealer said it was hydrolocking = strange feel),
further indicating to my fevered amateur mind that the
CIS had gone off.  After many weeks of messing with
and testing various CIS components, I finally
discovered that the distrib rotated clockwise.  That
fixed, the motor now spins easily and eagerly, no
heavy fuel smell, but won't start.  I have replaced
all CIS components several times from my stock pile of
used parts but still no start.  Although I have
assumed from the start that all the new ignition parts
actually worked, a creeping doubt has taken over me. 
Your response further indicates to me that some
ignition part(s) (also put in new used coil) may be
the culprit.

> Check with a spare plug, outdoors, no smell of fuel
> present.  Examine condition of
cap/rotor/wires/plugs, > hall sender, connection,
wires at coil.

      These will be checked.  If it acutally is
something this simple, I will nominate myself for the
Darwin Award for home automotive excellence.  I hope
it  is this simple, altho I will feel like
(...actually I would in fact be...) a complete idiot. 
Thankfully, the internet is largely anonymous.

Thanks for the suggestions.

p.s. Altho the above confessional could have been
theraputic/cathartic, it wasn't - I still feel like an idiot!

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