ok... i can't get my car started.



1989 Rx7 TurboII



189,000 KMs



i parked it mid october and haven't touched it... i went to go bring the car out of storage by the car won't start...



the battery was FUBAR too... it cranked a coupleof times and then it died... tried to recharge it with a battery charger but he battery won't hold a charge



So i go and buy a new optima redtop



i pulled the plugs out... put someATF in the leading plug holes... since my squirt bottle had ATF



didn't work.. car won't start...



fine so i dump the ATF and get motor oil and put that into the leading plug holes



still won't catch... each time i floor the gas pedal so that it will cut fuel to the engine on startup... i have even tried to use the EGI fuse





my car has never flooded... it would catch after 1 turn of the engine...



Please help me...



How do i start a severely flooded engine? i know it is flooded because when i first pulled the plugs they smell like gasoline and they were wet.

Umm other then what you are doing i dont know. Maybe a push start would work? I think you might have some leaky injectors though or else you cranked it too much on the initial try.

I usually turn it over with the plugs out (removed from plugs wires, too) to blow out the extra fuel. 10-15 seconds did it the 2 times my car has flooded.



Funny thing, the only times I've ever flooded it was after I had the right side jacked up to work on the exhaust....

Pull the plugs, clean them, put them back in. Pull the EGI fuse, crank it over for 10 - 15 sec. Put the fuse back in, and try starting it.

should the engine catch even if the EGI fuse is out?

ie will the car start with the flooded engine's own gasoline? even for a second?

the problem with pulling the fuse is that it turns off the spark too, i like unplugging the fuel pump. it does sound like you flooded it badly though, a push might not be a bad idea, or a pull



mike

I tried doing a rolling start (rolling out the garage, down the driveway) when me car was flooded real bad, it wouldn't work, but I didn't get going real fast. Another thing you can do is unscrew, and unplug the fuel pump relay and crank it over for 10 - 15 sec. Then plug it back in and try.

My father, being a mechanic had this crazy way of getting a flooded rotary to start. After not starting for a while, he would unplug the plug wires from the leading and hold them close enought to the spark that when the second person helping crank the engine, the electricty will jump the gab from the wire to the spark plug. This he said would heat up the spark plug make it run hot.



Well i didn't believe till he did it on a badly flooded engine. Becareful, it hurts getting zap by that much voltage. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...1047683358.gif

i gave up on the day... considering i FUBARed a trailing plug while taking it out... for some reason the #1 rotor trailing sparkplug is thight as hell ... ie i can't use my finger tips to remove or install the sparkplug... it's like the threads are fubared... but the plug goes in straight with a socket wrench after 1/2 way of scrweing it in by hand.



anyhow... can anyone confirm that stepping ont he gas pedal all the way is like disconnected teh fuel pump in essence?



or is this just rx7club.com rumor bull ****... looking at the FSM shows no switch... Unless it get its signal from the TPS... where if the engine is cranking and TPS is at full reading... then the fuel pump goes off... i'm nto sure.

Not bullshit, will cut fuel, until it will turn over.