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

Christopher Gharibo cgharibo at usa.net
Mon Jun 10 19:24:02 PDT 2013


Looked the car over again. The timing belt is intact and the engine definitely
turns. The engine just turns smoothly and evenly without the usual rhythmic
sounds. The sounds is one of constant, mono tone crank.

I am not sure if this is relevant, but I moved the car about 40 feet by
engaging the started and the car in neutral.

I will check the fuel delivery some time as well. 

Thanks for your continuing help.

------ Original Message ------
Received: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 05:42:33 PM EDT
From: John Larson <viejoloco at comcast.net>
To: Christopher Gharibo <cgharibo at usa.net>
Subject: Re: '91 100q 5 injectors replaced - now car wont start

> On 6/9/2013 4:35 PM, Christopher Gharibo 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.
> >
> >
> I'm not clear on the "spinning" part.  Is the sound just the starter 
> spinning, or the engine itself?  Is the speed the same as usual or 
> substantially faster?  If it's just the starter, you have a bad 
> starter.  If the engine is cranking too fast, or even just smoothly w/o 
> the usual pulses, you may have a timing belt problem.  The plastic bits 
> aren't likely to cause a problem, especially on all 5 cylinders at 
> once.  They pulverize pretty quickly.
> 
> John




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