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General => General Technical => Anything Engine/Performance/Tuning related => Topic started by: nikp on May 20, 2004, 12:52:31 PM

Title: My FD\'s flooded again!
Post by: nikp on May 20, 2004, 12:52:31 PM
Yup, as the subject says! She\'s flooded again, and i can\'t start her using the method as stated in the manual (Foot off gas for 10seconds, foot on gas for 10 seconds, repeat). I\'m gonna have to unflooded her the difficult way - plugs out, etc. Not really looking forward to that, but she needs to be started! she\'s been sat flooded for 3 weeks now, as i haven\'t had time to sort her out! Poor ol\' gal!

grrrrrr.....:mad:

Just thought i\'d share my misery!!
Title: My FD\'s flooded again!
Post by: Andyp on May 20, 2004, 01:17:03 PM
oddness! *touch wood* mines never flooded since i\'ve had it

You haven\'t got a duff cat have ya?
Title: My FD\'s flooded again!
Post by: J4P RX on May 20, 2004, 01:23:44 PM
I was just thinking that Ive never flooded one either - how do you manage it :o
Title: My FD\'s flooded again!
Post by: nikp on May 20, 2004, 01:27:57 PM
I don\'t think so. She flooded under the classic circumstances: Didn\'t let her warm up properly the last time she was started.
Title: My FD\'s flooded again!
Post by: J4P RX on May 20, 2004, 01:30:16 PM
I do that loads too, like just starting for 10 secs to move a parking space (its a mare where I live) and ive still never had a problem :confused:
Title: My FD\'s flooded again!
Post by: Andyp on May 20, 2004, 01:33:02 PM
me either. What plugs do you run mate...
mine never did it on 7x9\'s and just for a giggle i\'m trying 9x9\'s and it\'s still doesn\'t do it :(
Title: My FD\'s flooded again!
Post by: J4P RX on May 20, 2004, 02:16:09 PM
9x9 IIRC
Title: My FD\'s flooded again!
Post by: 88GT-R on May 20, 2004, 05:15:14 PM
nikp,
Try removing the fuel injection fuse, turning her over a couple of times and she should start. If she has been flooded that long, i reckon the plugs need to come out for a clean, as you won´t get any spark through damp plug.

John
88 GT-R
Title: perhaps nothing to do with it....
Post by: Shark on May 20, 2004, 06:20:37 PM
...but I flooded my old merc by just moving it a few yards and switching off.

Before you flay me, I know the piston engine is a world away from the rotary!>

It didn;t flood in the traditional sense and rectification was similar, off gas and try to start, on gasfor a bit, off gas etc....

caned the battery and gave me another bloody problem.  The AA guy came out and reckoned that it wasn;t flooder per se, just it\';s still called that, basically, there was no compression.

You checked the compression and oil?