'91 100q 5 injectors replaced - now car wont start

John Lagnese jlagnese at massed.net
Sun Jun 9 21:46:32 PDT 2013


I missed the part of the engine spinning. Did the injectors seat correctly? Spray some alcohol on them to see if there are leaks. You could also see if its bubbling around them.

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On Jun 9, 2013, at 11:54 PM, "John Lagnese" <jlagnese at massed.net> wrote:

> Did you check for fuel pressure?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: quattro-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com] On
> Behalf Of Christopher Gharibo
> Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2013 9:46 PM
> To: Joshua van Tol
> Cc: quattro at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: '91 100q 5 injectors replaced - now car wont start
> 
> My injector shrouds were in pieces and maybe some fell into where the
> injectors insert. I doubt it, but it's conceivable.
> 
> So what should I do here? Take out upper half of the intake and the
> injectors
> and try to vacuum out the pieces?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> ------ Original Message ------
> Received: Sun, 09 Jun 2013 09:22:44 PM EDT
> From: Joshua van Tol <jvantol at gmail.com>
> To: Christopher Gharibo <cgharibo at usa.net>
> Subject: Re: '91 100q 5 injectors replaced - now car wont start
> 
>> Is it possible you dropped something down the intake? Sounds like no
> compression, and that could be caused by foreign objects holding the valves
> open.
>> On Jun 9, 2013, at 6:35 PM, Christopher Gharibo <cgharibo at usa.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> I just replaced 5 injectors on my 100q, cleaned what I can and plugged
>>> everything back in.
>>> 
>>> The car now wont start. The fuel pump primes, the starter comes on but
> the
>>> card does not make that typical, cycling, cranking sound. The starter
> sound is
>>> now this constant spin instead of the rhythmic cranking one hears when
> the
> car
>>> cranks normally. It doesn't seem like anything is firing.
>>> 
>>> Any thoughts on what I an missing?
>>> 
>>> Thanks.
>>> 
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