Haltech new starting problem
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new starting problem
last month I had some buyers come by to check out my roller before I take out the goodies. so I start it up to show them the engine is good. let it idle for a couple minutes then turn it off. later that night I decide to go out and the car wont start. i chalk it up to not having a tune and it's below freezing out at this point.
fast forward to today it finally gets back up to the 40s outside so I decide to move the car.
when you start a car it makes that familiar sound like how I imagine and old robot coughing. now instead of this sound it just goes pop pop pop like a plunger. I dig out the laptop and all seems well on the engine data screen. in 15 second intervals I crank and rest until the battery is about to give out on me. the funny thing is I couldn't smell fuel and I figure it would have flooded the chamber by now.
haltech problem or something else?
fast forward to today it finally gets back up to the 40s outside so I decide to move the car.
when you start a car it makes that familiar sound like how I imagine and old robot coughing. now instead of this sound it just goes pop pop pop like a plunger. I dig out the laptop and all seems well on the engine data screen. in 15 second intervals I crank and rest until the battery is about to give out on me. the funny thing is I couldn't smell fuel and I figure it would have flooded the chamber by now.
haltech problem or something else?
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so i went out and it took a damn long time in 33 degree weather with only a crescent wrench, but I got the plugs out. jumped the starter and nothing came out. so I cleaned up some used plugs and slapped them in and nothing... still sounds odd. so I tried using starter fluid and didn't work either.
guess at this point it's time to tow it down to the garage and do a compression test.
guess at this point it's time to tow it down to the garage and do a compression test.
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yeah pump primes. old plugs were wet. computer stays on the whole time. I had the laptop hooked up last time to verify everything. sees trailing spark since the RPMs on the dash and screen worked.
it just sounds so quiet. i had this same exhaust on my last t2 and when I detonated I drove 9 miles home on one rotor. when I tried to start it the next day (didn't) it didn't sound this bad. maybe I can get an audio clip. at this point I'm not thinking it's the haltech.
it just sounds so quiet. i had this same exhaust on my last t2 and when I detonated I drove 9 miles home on one rotor. when I tried to start it the next day (didn't) it didn't sound this bad. maybe I can get an audio clip. at this point I'm not thinking it's the haltech.
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