after FIXING vac and exhaust leak my car will not start!
12-26-03, 12:34 AM
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after FIXING vac and exhaust leak my car will not start!
Alright let me start off with a brief history. My car has a s4 TII motor running on the stock ecu but bassically bareblock. I took off my turbo and manifold to fix an exhaust leak and also took off my intake manifolds to get at the aftermarket exhaust manifold. I re-siliconed the intake manifolds back together and put a new gasket on the exhaust manifold. Well I tried to start it and it wouldnt go. I checked over everything and my afm wasnt connected, so I reconnected it. I try again with starting fluid...no luck. It is so close to starting sometimes it even takes off and runs for a half a second. I have a fuel pump kill switch and I have been playing with that, so its not flooded. I check the afm and tps sensors. I have looked that vaccumm hoses are connected. What could it be? I removed my spark plugs and blew out fuel multiple times. Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks,
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12-26-03, 12:39 AM
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you sure its not flooded?? ..could your spark plugs be soaked in fuel? mine starts after lots of cranking...idles like hell but thats because i have vac leak.....if you havent yet, try the unflooding procedure. i know you have a kill switch but it wouldnt hurt to try it anyways..
12-26-03, 12:56 AM
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Yeah I have tried the unflooding proceedure twice now...the spark plugs where wet but not bad. It didnt make any difference. I also checked and all four are getting spark. the sparkplugs are almost new btw. Any other ideas?
12-26-03, 01:09 AM
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good idea. I will try that tomorrow and post how it goes. In the meantime im gonna go eat some of grandmas turkey and ****** forget about my "not running" ride home....o yea im stuck at the grandparents untill I fix this sob......12sec car my ***
12-26-03, 01:20 AM
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You need 4 things to get a rotary running. Air, fuel, spark and compression. Go down the list. If you have all four, she'll run. She may run like ****, but she'll run. 
12-26-03, 01:50 AM
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errr... When I messed with my intake manifold a year ago I had to crank the car for about a minute before it got "unflooded" enough to fire. It took me a few days and I got fed up and started cranking it till no end and it started right up.
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Tried everything listed above. No luck. I can disconnect the afm and turn off the fuel pump and get it to run for a few seconds on starter fluid. I am quite certain that there are no MAJOR vac leaks. Could my afm be bad? My next step is to try and pull start it. Should I try that?
12-26-03, 05:07 PM
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Well I got it running, and well. I still dont know what it was but it must have just been flooded. One time it just sputtered a bit more and started up.
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