SalemSaab wrote:Crazyswede wrote:
check your plugs and make sure they are properly gapped. Makes sure your timing is set properly. I assume plugs, cap, rotor, and wires are all new? Check the spray patterns on each of the 4 cis injectors....(it is CIS right?).
Yes they are / it is.
Normally starts fine. Today its still dead so I'm pretty much SOL.
I don't have a garage, tools, or much automotive skill, so I guess it's the bus for me.
If I get this new job out of town next week I guess it'll be a fire sale on. The 99 if anyone is interested
When something similar happened to me, this is what I did:
1. pulled a plug, it was wet, so the engine flooded.
2. pulled all 4, then plugged the block heater in (this was the middle of winter) which heats up the pistons and allows the gas to evaporate through the plug holes
3. took a propane torch (plumbing type) and heated the spark gap metal (wtf is this actually called?) red hot to burn off any residual crap on them
4. Leave it plugged in overnight.
Next day/ or same I guess Check for spark:
5. Pull the fuel pump relay (or you will floood it), connect a plug wire to the plug, and rest the threaded portion of it against some part of the head (I used the lift rings) where you can see it from in the car.
6. Get in and crank it over. You should see spark. If you don't, then you will have to check other things.
(note: if you have a friend, get them in the car, and just pull the king lead off the distributor and put it close to the head while they crank it, it will arc as well and show spark)
7. If you get spark, put the relay back in
Definately next day:
8. Put all 4 plugs back in
9. Connect everything up, make sure your fuel pump relay is in. (You can tell because in a 99, you turn the key to run (without cranking) you should hear the fuel pump run for a short period of time.
10. Try to start the car
10a. If it won't start (mine didn't right away, and I didn't want to flood it.) take off the intake pipe leading to the throttle body, spray in a bit of carb cleaner, put it back on, then try to start it.
Mine started after this, and ran crappy for a little bit while it burnt off any remaining crud.
Since, if it is cold, I have had to let the car idle til the temp guage covers up the horezonatal portion of the L. If I don't, the car runs shitty and bucks all over the place, and sometimes floods the engine and kills it, even when in gear driving at 30km or so. After I learned this, I havn't had a problem since. (unless I don't let it warm up a bit)