How to Start a Flooded Engine?
Discussion
So whats the secret? I am very loath to try the old "full throttle and crank until it starts" job, cos I didn't want the dreaded accelerator pumps to puke yet more fuel into the motor. Plugs are as wet as a wet thing ....... (MSD checks out OK)
Disconnect ignition and crank it with plugs out?
Goodwood tomorrow and a silent car
And yes, I know the solution is to chuck the carb in the skip and fit EFI
Disconnect ignition and crank it with plugs out?
Goodwood tomorrow and a silent car
And yes, I know the solution is to chuck the carb in the skip and fit EFI
Either WOT while starting or leave it for 2 hour.... if no good then I'm sorry to say it's the plug out and stick them in the Cooker for 15 mins on high to dry them out...... and never put one of those silly magnets on the fuel line as every time I tried it, she fouled the plugs.....
Oh, and forgot to mention the Ultima dished me up a motoring first today! A whiskered plug!
Heard about them, had lots of rubbish British two stroke bikes, but never seen one. But there it was, about .010 to .020" of black grot whisker shorting between the electrodes. So that cylinder was a dead man. Wonder about the others .....
So it's off to the spark plug shop first thing!
Stuart
Heard about them, had lots of rubbish British two stroke bikes, but never seen one. But there it was, about .010 to .020" of black grot whisker shorting between the electrodes. So that cylinder was a dead man. Wonder about the others .....
So it's off to the spark plug shop first thing!
Stuart
My advice for starting the car before its flooded.
single push of the throttle to the floor and back... then crank it over until it catches and DO NOT touch the throttle before it starts to catch.... then very gently feather it for a couple of mins.
This assumes no choke is fitted and its a double barrel like mine was...... worked every time for my car.
For flooded car... well mine I used to leave for a few mins and repeat above but rarelly happened with the above approach.
However I did have another car that was a nightmare and I had to actually take the plugs out and DRY them off with a cloth... then it would fire 1st time.
For this particular car, I could leave it hrs and it would nnever start... once it was flooded the ONLY way to start it was to remove and dry the plugs.
single push of the throttle to the floor and back... then crank it over until it catches and DO NOT touch the throttle before it starts to catch.... then very gently feather it for a couple of mins.
This assumes no choke is fitted and its a double barrel like mine was...... worked every time for my car.
For flooded car... well mine I used to leave for a few mins and repeat above but rarelly happened with the above approach.
However I did have another car that was a nightmare and I had to actually take the plugs out and DRY them off with a cloth... then it would fire 1st time.
For this particular car, I could leave it hrs and it would nnever start... once it was flooded the ONLY way to start it was to remove and dry the plugs.
Sheesh, you guys are living in the stone age! Seriously though, I used to have this problem with a Rover v8/holley combo and had to bake a fair few plugs on the gas cooker to dry them out. I learnt to switch the fuel pump off whilst cranking with just a tad of throttle angle. Or I'd give it one shot of accel pump and then crank.
Crazy of Cookham said:
The AA are very good they came out a couple of months ago to start my Monaro 500bhp. He asked two telling questions. 1) What is a supercharger and 2) Is it front wheel drive!!!. Good luck
Hmmm, I wonder what he will make of his initiation into the horrors of the Hideous Holley Maybe I'm missing something obvious, so correct me if this doesn't apply to an Ultima. I would think that pull-starting would start a flooded engine every time. If you are on a hill, roll it and pop the clutch. It shouldn't take much, pull it a short distance and it ought to fire right up. No waiting, no cranking, no AAA calls, no fuss.
mohrt said:
Maybe I'm missing something obvious, so correct me if this doesn't apply to an Ultima. I would think that pull-starting would start a flooded engine every time. If you are on a hill, roll it and pop the clutch. It shouldn't take much, pull it a short distance and it ought to fire right up. No waiting, no cranking, no AAA calls, no fuss.
No towing eye!!!!!!!!!!Steve
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