Re: Hydro-Lock?

[STEADIRIC@aol.com]

>the car that i saw was suffering from leaky fuel injectors.  i should
>probably add that it was only the second v8 ever encountered by that
>dealership to suffer hydro-lock.
>
>i also did say that i don't know of any actual cases of hydro lock
>resulting from continuous cold starting.  i will go and check and
>see what caused the first car to hydro lock.  it was not caused
>by flood waters i'm pretty sure.

I doubt that is was caused by leaking injector's The fuel pressure 
accumulator in the V8's is 35cc capacity meaning that if you had one 
injector leaking and it dumped all 40cc's into that cyl you would at 
10.6/1 compression still be 12.5cc's short of hydro lock.... Once that 
40cc is pumped out of the accumulator there is no more... That's why some 
of our cars with leaky injectors/bad accumulators are hard to start in 
the morning. The I5T's btw use a 20cc accumlator leaving us turbo pilots 
35cc's short of hydro lock.

I'm voting the V8 pilot tried to go swimming with the car...

Later!


Eric Fletcher
'87 5KCSTQIA2RSR2B

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