Exhaust Leak
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Exhaust Leak
I can't get my 88 gxl started and I think its because I have a leak at my manifold. It is also straight piped. I was wondering if that could be causing low compression and aiding my flooding problem because i haven't even had a chance to hear it run since I got it. It's driving me nuts so If you have any suggestions please help me out. Thanks.
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don't know
I tried unflooding it every way i've found on the internet and it still won't start. It will stumble sometimes and rarely fire and when it does it revs real fast to 3k and shuts off.
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double check to make sure your afm is plugged in, its attached to the back of the airbox, at one point i had left mine unplugged and it would do that exact thing
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If the afm is the wide connector on the metal part of the airbox then it is plugged in but the connector is worn and cracked. I have been in this forum every night for at least the last 4 weeks trying everything suggested. I'm really at a lost. I have a friend thats coming over today to check my compression. I have new plugs wires I checked spark its fine I have a new fuel pump and its priming. I have a set of injectors on the way but I was wondering if because it has a leak at the ehaust manifold if thats why it could possibly have low compression.
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I can get it to 5.5k and then it dies but it will only start if I have my foot on the gas a little and then no matter what I do it starts to rev to 3 and then if I have my foot all the way on it it will make it to 5.5 but It immediatly cuts I don't know if its a fuel cut, air cut, or a lack of spark.
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The guy I bought it from removed the air pump and checking all the lines have been a night mere and there is no one around me with one I can look at. It sucks. out of curiosity where do the three lines that come off at the throttle go to I know the top one goes to the omp injectors which the genius that I bought it from disconnected and threw away the four way connector. I don't know where the middle one goes. I think the bottom one is like 3 inches and it goes to a brass connector.
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The front 3 vac lines on the S4 plenum go to the oil injectors, anti afterburn valve (back side of the LIM) and the emissions rack. The emissions rack connection splits off and goes to the EGR, relief and switching solenoids.
Search for "colored vacuum diagram" and you'll find some FSM images that people have colored in so you can actually tell where lines go.
Search for "colored vacuum diagram" and you'll find some FSM images that people have colored in so you can actually tell where lines go.
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I just went through and took off my manifold and replaced all the lines according to a vac diagram and It is still doing the same thing. I contacted pineapple racing and their mechanics have never heard of suck a problem but they think it might be a vac issue too. I don't know I'm at a loss
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Here is the manual:
http://www.teamfc3s.org/main/factory...ual/1986_1988/
Since you mentioned air pump, make sure the lines are properly terminated. Also there are two air lines that come from air cleaner duct that go to the manifold, make sure they are connected.
http://www.teamfc3s.org/main/factory...ual/1986_1988/
Since you mentioned air pump, make sure the lines are properly terminated. Also there are two air lines that come from air cleaner duct that go to the manifold, make sure they are connected.
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Keep searching for a vacume leak as that sounds like the biggest possibility in my mind. On the other hand it does sound exactly like an afm thing too. When I got my engine installed at first I didn't have an afm but wanted to know that the engine ran so I tried it. It was hard to start and flooded easy and would do exactly what you described rev to 3k then die immediately.