ok on sat my radiator blew. got it towed back to my house clean the bay out and hosed out the block then had to wait for my new radiator to come on tuesday did all the installing today. filled it up with water planing to drain it out again. well when i went to start it it wouldnt catch, it would turn over real faintly. so let it charge for awhile and tried it again. same deal, replaced the spark plugs and tried it again. same thing nothing. just wont catch. what else could it be????

 

dont start jumping to anything bad yet mate,,,,start with the basics makes sure the radiator swap didnt upset any electrical connections,,,,,, try the unflooding procedure and dry out the spark plugs,,,,,, (theres a very good possibility it could be just flooded)

 

yea i did check all the wires. and i replaced my plugs and made sure they were dry.

 

do u know how to do the unflooding procedure for this car,,, id try that first mate

 

no, how do you? i'll give it a shoot

 

puled the egi and tryed cranking it over nothing... put the egi back in and tryed it again 3-4 times and nothing

 

right mate when my car flooded out i did the following-> try all this first,,,, pull all 4 spark plugs and pull EGI fuse. now crank the car over for 20 seconds this should kick out all the fuel (if its flooded),,,, now dry the plugs (i cook them on a gas hob),, now put the plugs and the EGI fuse back in (make sure plug wires are on correct plugs) and try fire it up

 

did you detach the battery when you 'hosed' the engine bay?
you could potentially have fried a lot of stuff by bridging so many electrics.

 

You can hose off the entire engine bay. What do you think happens when you drive in the rain? All of the electrical connectors are sealed unless the harness is in really bad shape. Just don't do it when hot.

 

While i'll concede that the oil pan, and perhaps the front cover get wet when you drive in the rain, i'd confidently say that the battery terminals and harness aren't getting wet.
i could be wrong, there could be forces beyond my comprehension in that bay (which would be proven by a fully closed battery box).

i just don't think hosing it off is the best idea.

 

yea i covers all intake piping and took out the batt. tryed the egi thing again same thing. looked at the tail pipe and notice a hazy kinda cloud going out doesnt smell like coolant or anything just kinda faint gas. giving up tonight gonna try again later..

 

got home from work thinking about fooling around with my car some more still no progess, but my engine bay smells really bad of gasoline and i have a gas leak some where maybe in or around the block. cant pen point it but it drips out???? still dunno what to do any ideas?

 

if you got a gas leak i suggest you find it mate,,,that means removing the upper intake manifold to get to all the fuel lines and injectors.

 

yea i was thinking about that...ok well i'll check it all out on friday after work and let you know. thanks tiger for all your input

 

You just need to search for flooded, there are like 20 threads that will tell you what to do. I think you are flooded.

 

i bought the tune up kit from ray a month or so ago and the i changed out the plugs thinking that the old ones were dirty after it wouldn't fire up. it came with leading and trailing plugs. they look differant (new ones) and the old one all look like the flat plugs. (trailing?) what is the correct plug set-up. i now have two flat plugs and two semi standard looking ones. i followed the diagram on the plug box and installed accordinly. when i took my car to the local crapy mazda dealership about a year ago to get the plugs changed i guess they used the flat plugs in all four holes. whick is the corect set-up?

 

really they should all be flat,,, thats how mazda made it,,,, (but i think you can run normal style plugs in either the trailers or the leaders but im not sure on this,,,,, some one else maybe able to help u ) --- im still with the flooding idea mate,,,,sometimes the engines are a **** to unflood,,,,do a search-> unflooding <-

 

ok everyone... you wont believe how i got this thing to start! i had my brother walk around the car to check on the exhaust and he just put his hand on the muffler to sorta build up back pressure i guess and after about 3 secs the the car roared to life and shot a flame at least two feet long and burned his beard! it starts up now and we're going to flush it a dozen times or so with distilled water. so if anyone has problems starting up that has a full 3" from the turbo to the *** end, have someone close up the exhaust with there hand. it worked for me. oh yeah by the way has anyone installed a spark plug in the exhaust? just curious