Hello, this morning, about an hour ago, I went and started my 88gxl like normal and began to let it warm up. Usually i let it warm up for like 10 minutes but today I let idle for about 15 because I was messing with a tach that someone got me for christmas. anyway, I pulled off to go to my first class and I glanced back to where the car was parked to check for leaks, a habit of mines, and saw flames on the ground. So I whipped the car around and turned it off, grabbed a trash can and filled it up with water. When I raised the hood flames came pouring out, so I put them out. The aftermath= i assume that one of the injectors were leaking. Luckily, it doesnt seem like any of the wires were burnt up. From looking above it seems like the fire only affected my intake manifold. not sure though...

 

check the pulsation dampener. that might have went on you. replace it with a banjo bolt. you can get it from summit for like 8 bucks. not sure what size. i am going TM to get one though. i am bringing my pulsation dampener with me.

 

Don't you hate it when that happens.
Usually you can smell a fuel leak & get it fixed before it catches fire.
Injectors rarely leak unless you mess with them.
Usually it's the pulse damper.

 

the pulse damper??? i'll check it out. do you think it could have done any serious damage???

 

it is on the primary fuel rail. looks like a dashpot with a plastic bubble on it. its good size. about a little over an inch in diameter. well i wouldnt start it again until you look.

 

yeah if it was bad enough you could have messed up your wireing harness and any rubber house/coupler etc... that may be in that area.

 

Refresh my memory again, what size and dimensions does the bolt need to be.

Fire threads always get me motivated to replace my PD.

 

eh...ill search. give me a sec.

 

okay, it is 12mm x 1.25 and -6an inlet.

from summit it is part number ear-997591 and runs 8 bucks + ship.

 

Can I get any bolt of the same deminsions?? they wouldnt carry one at home depot or nothing??? Because this is my primary car, so I need to have the car back running after this weekend... for skewl and work....

 

sorry it took a while to respond back, just got out of my organic chemistry class... its a f***ing hard class...

 

i am going to summit tm. i can get a second one and you can pay me for it. you could have it like tuesday. got paypal? napa doesnt even sell the right size. ive checked everywhere.

 

No, but I could possibly moneygram it to you...

 

works for me, im not picky. ill let you know a price total tm.

 

ok, kewl. pm me for my #

 

Why not just replace the damper with a new one? That way, you maintain the original function, and it will last for another 18+ years.

Some have had negative experience with the banjo bolt "fix".

 

yea, I am checking prices for a new one right now. but, i just wanted a quick fix for now so I wouldnt get fired... if i loose my job then I cant fix anything. i dont have much money saved... i am a strugglin college student watin for my next financial aide refund check... until then, i a little strapped on money...

 

What sort of 'negative experience' aaron? And what's to say that a new PD will last 18 years? Sure, his did, but the screw has been out for the last 5 years or more, in probability. I see the gray PD's (replaced units) with screws out of them all the time. I'd give the life of a PD about 5 years from what I've seen. Who wants to spend $100+ and a couple hours of labor every few years to change out a part that doesnt make the car go any faster or run any better? And in the meantime you'd still have to worry about it failing. IMO, mazda should have designed the PD better...there should be a second layer of metal over the screw, brazed on (think about a dime welded on the tip of it, but with a more conical rounded shape to allow the screw to expand outward), so that even if the screw comes out and the diapragm fails, the worst thing that would happen would be that fuel would fill up the little pocket at the end of the PD...but it could never leak.

 

mine was four kinds of bad. so much that when DJ touched it, it fell apart....

so going bolting tm!

 

I was just looking at someones PD yesterday and telling him about the probable fire. You could also replace with the S5 fuel rail , they dont have the same fault

 

wait. couldnt i just get a threaded fitting with a nipple or something and fun the hose directly to the fuel rail. elminating any banjoing or is that bad?

 

Uh, thats what you get for accepting a "tach" as a gift for your car. Your GXL was probably thinking to itself "**** this ****, I came with a nice tach stock what the hell is wrong with these guys?!" and decided to commit suicide to teach you a lesson.


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Get all that stuff fixed that got melted/destroyed in the fire and grab a banjo bolt from summit racing. I had it on my car for a few years(before it was totaled) and it was fine, no ill effects.

 

That's what the banjo does, run the hose directly to the fuel rail.

 

yeah from the side in a small hole. what if there is just hose connection like any non banjo related connection?

 

The banjo has nothing to do with the hose connection. It just caps off the end so fuel isn't squirting all over your engine.

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