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'87 B230FT - Starts now (for about 3 seconds) 700 1987

posted by  Bean on  Tue Jan 25 04:54 CST 2005
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I don't have personal experience with this but have retained some info regarding flooding and not starting. I believe the original poster, from many years ago, was Don Foster or Art Benstein.

If the engine was really flooded there is a possibility that the gasoline may have seeped past the piston rings, this does two things: adds gas to your oil which could be potentially dangerous and also would lower your compression in the cylinder(s) that the flooding is occuring. From the original post, the fix for the no start was to add a squirt of oil into each spark plug hole. Maybe crank the engine a few times to distribute the oil in the cylinder...unplug the injectors before doing so.

Considering your car runs for three seconds, the compression is probably good enough. Something to think about though.

Good luck,
Bean
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'80 242GT 93k, '94 945T 139k, '89 765T 68k (new '94 B230FT)






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