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turbotalon1g
12-09-2010, 09:26 PM
Good luck.
mlomker
12-09-2010, 09:29 PM
Lomker, remember when your car wouldn't't start on that angle/grade?
The Bosch 044 that I had installed was over-running the stock fpr and causing it to flood out. Not sure why that was more of an issue at an angle than when level. I had a lot of fuel and a surge tank so it wasn't a pickup issue.
Your symptoms do remind me of when DoughtCom was running without an fpr.
scheides
12-09-2010, 09:50 PM
I poured in a gallon of old gas I had for the lawn mower (bp93 of course!) and it fired up!! I was pumped! I started to put things back together and i noticed the MAF was unplugged. Surely I had checked that before? Hrmmm. Got it all back together, fired up, died. WTF! Go and unplug the Maf, fires up and purrs like a kitten!
Murlo, can I borrow your Maf sensor? :)
turbotalon1g
12-09-2010, 09:53 PM
lol out of gas. Glad you are getting it figured out. wootski!!!!!!!!!
Kracka
12-09-2010, 10:07 PM
Glad it's running!
t-revzr
12-09-2010, 10:19 PM
Congrats Scheides! Im glad you got it started up!
goodhart
12-09-2010, 10:29 PM
That's weird that the MAF sensor would just crap out like that. Did it get jarred just right when it was removed or something? Glad to hear its running!
Rmondoh
12-09-2010, 11:35 PM
That's great news Scheides! Glad it's up and running!
awd-drifter
12-09-2010, 11:51 PM
NIIIIIIICE
scheides
12-10-2010, 12:08 AM
God what a joke, I SWEAR I tried to start the car w/o the maf but I'm guessing I tried unplugging the cam sensors instead. I'll try and get murlo's maf tomorrow and swap it in for mine. Hopeufully that is it, maybe I can spray mine down with some maf cleaner or something. I don't know how it would have gotten damaged sitting on my workbench, in the middle of the the intake tube it hardly could have gotten dirty! It reads like 1.2V in evoscan when idling and 1.8v when I rev it so it *is* reading something. Just weird.
Spent the rest of the night bolting the hood back on, oil change, torquing crank pulley, and getting the snow tires down from the attic. I wanna drive the thing so bad but work again just owns me. Fingers crossed on this job I interviewed for yesterday!
Wheels are sitting next to the car, I'll bolt them on and take it out for a spin tomorrow as soon as I get home from work, hopefully before the snow comes!
Thanks again for all the help everyone, couldn't have done it w/o you!
I have a vid of the startup, I'll post it soon.
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