From d.pertuz at gmail.com Sat Sep 16 16:54:59 2017 From: d.pertuz at gmail.com (David Pertuz) Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2017 15:54:59 -0500 Subject: A strange fuel/spark issue In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Update: Injector #4 was stuck open. No idea how that happened, but when I replaced it the problem went away. Good! In other news, it turns out I don't have a rod bearing issue after all. In 2007 I thought I started hearing the signs of rod bearings starting to go, and kept an ear on it. I stopped driving the car in 2008 when I moved to Chicago. The car sat and sat, put it back on the road last year....no noise. Huh?! Did an oil change on all my cars last month and sent a sample off to Blackstone - no evidence in the oil of bad bearings. I have no idea what I was hearing years ago, then. but I'm glad to see it! So no worries about the engine. But I don't need the spare I picked up last year from Josh Palmer any more (anyone need one?) Maybe I will swap in the S4 cams, though. I think I forgot to attach the photo in my last email - picked it up in Vancouver, BC in June and drove it home. Great car! ? On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 1:04 PM, David Pertuz wrote: > The other weekend I was driving the SE-R with a friend who wanted to get > some practice with a clutch before driving a rental car on vacation in > France (I'm one of his few friends who owns a car, and the SE-R is > easy-peasy to drive and similar to what his rental car would feel like.) > Car was fine, we went out to dinner, and then when I started it to drive > home from dinner it was, mysteriously, running on three cylinders again. > > When I revived it from its long slumber I did not flush the old gas out > (no time, perversely) and a couple of injectors got clogged - I swapped > them out with spares. But it's been running fine for a couple of thousand > miles now. This afternoon I started it up in its parking spot to isolate > the affected cylinder. What struck me the most was the strong fuel smell > from under the hood. Sniffing around, I eventually noticed a significant > amount of raw (wet) fuel leaking out of the header primary-secondary > gasket, some of which would collect on the front of the block. This is > strange. > > Cylinder #4 is the affected one (verified by pulling the injector plug - > no change in running condition) but the fuel coming out the exhaust, and > its quantity, is strange. I ran out of time and will have to go back later > this afternoon, but either there is no spark or the injector is possibly > stuck open and just dumping tons of fuel in. Or both? But I have no idea > why. Odd since the car ran perfectly for a million years, but this is what > long sitting can do. > > On another front, attached is a photo of my latest acquisition, to replace > my 2004 Accord. > > > > David > Chicago > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Saab in Portland.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 1059885 bytes Desc: not available URL: