Ummm a little bit of help please........

Rotary_Menace · May 07, 2009, 08:43:52 PM

Right so i\'ve flooded my car again, i find it happens whenever i slip the key, as in i turn it over and it slips for whatever reason today it was that i putting on my rather new sexy steering wheel and not paying attention. Anyway my usual way of starting havent yielded any results. throttle flat to the flaw. giving her a jump, using "start ya b@st@rd"

anyway now to the really quite worrying part i found a pipe just hanging off, its coming from the intake. anyway have look. it was attached at the intake just hanging down?

Any ideas on both fronts please. can i bump start her?

Ada7 · May 07, 2009, 08:47:30 PM

If you take out the EGI fuse in the main fuse box next to the battery you can turn the engine over without it pumping more fuel in. This will hopefully kick out the fuel in there after a while. Then put the fuse back in and try again. It may just catch and spark into life

Adam

adib · May 07, 2009, 08:53:16 PM

hi mate, take the plugs out and then the egi fuse out and turn it over most off the petrol will come out off plug holes, then put egi fuse back in and some dry plugs back in should then start

Rotary_Menace · May 07, 2009, 09:20:45 PM

ok what about that pipe? where should it be connected to?

lee mills · May 07, 2009, 09:24:32 PM

Iirc it doesnt connect to anything it is just left dangling

Memphis · May 07, 2009, 10:13:20 PM

Yep, just haning around is good in this case.

Rotary_Menace · May 07, 2009, 10:19:17 PM

Quote from: lee mills;605951Iirc it doesnt connect to anything it is just left dangling

really? whats the point in that? so it is just flooded then? the pipe is nothing to worry about then?

m1tch · May 07, 2009, 10:21:41 PM

I think it might be for the air pump, I know in my FC there was a pipe going to the air intake box, it could be that its become disconnected from the air pump, no real problem really

Nik da Greek · May 07, 2009, 10:48:06 PM

That pipe is as Mitch says, part of the airpump anti-mooing gubbins, to silence the dreaded lovesick cow noises it\'d otherwise make at 2000 rpm on a trailing throttle. Don\'t really need it though if it upsets you :Giggle

vonrumble · May 07, 2009, 10:48:59 PM

air pump, looks the same as the fc\'s just stick a breather filter on the end just so no dust gets in. Nothing major. Remove egi fuse as said by other people. or fit a kill switch to the fuel pump, good for security and de flooding as mine does it loads on short journeys. must be some thread on how to do it for FD\'s on here somewhere

jackaleks · May 08, 2009, 09:21:15 AM

i always pull out all of the plugs, crank the engine by the alternator a few times (after really badly flooding it there\'s a noticeable petrol smell when you pop the plugs back in) and then jump start the car. when it\'s really badly flooded i attack the plugs with a hairdryer for about twenty minutes before putting them back in.

Rotary_Menace · May 08, 2009, 09:47:40 AM

Ah thats good to hear! which fuse it is? in the engine bay?

cheers lads

danny_m94 · May 08, 2009, 10:41:48 AM

last time mine flooded i stood the plugs upside down covered them in a bit of break cleaner and lit them. Was very romantic just me the car and the stars :InLove

Rotary_Menace · May 08, 2009, 12:29:28 PM

Ok guys so i found a really good guide just in case the other few less mechanically minded people like myself need help

http://www.rx7city.com/tech%20connect/unflood.pdf

Right this is happening a little to often for my liking, i was told it had compression results of all 7\'s on the fronts and 7.5\'s on the back. Can any mazda dealership do a compression test for me? how much am i looking at?