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Re: Just about had enough - '84 Saab 900
Posted by Charles Christacopoulos (more from Charles Christacopoulos) on Fri, 18 Feb 2000 11:59:01
In Reply to: Just about had enough - '84 Saab 900, Paul Brusen, Fri, 18 Feb 2000 11:02:22
> But advice... I need some desperately. After sitting for the night, I =
> went to start the car and it coughed as I turned it over and caught and =
> ran for a second or two, then stalled. After that no cranking will get =
> it close unless I let it sit again for some time. It behaves exactly =
> like it's flooded. I try starting without touching the gas, I try =
> pumping the gas once, I try floored, I try in between... makes no =
> difference. Can anyone please help me? I'm very frustrated and am =
> thinking of becoming an 'Former-Saab Owner'.=20
Apologies for the capital letters. I am not shouting.
For all comments I assume engine is cold (it must be as it is not running).
Is it injection or carburettor?
For now here are some easy steps :-)
If the car is flooding - IS IT COLD/DUMP NOW where you live, Winter ???
You can cjeck if it is flooded by removing one sparking plug. If flooded
you'll not miss it. It will be soaking in fuel.
If flooded and injection (and winter time).
Remove the fuse for the fuel pump. Is is marked on the fuse box cover.
Crank engine, when it fires and starts coughing have assistant replace the
fuse (it will unflood whilst cranking).
Hope it runs.
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If it is a carburetor model remove the feed pipe from the pump (I think it is
the pipe on the outer part of the fuel pump). Do as above WATCH OUT FOR FUEL
SPILLS :-))
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If it is winter you have little other option for unflooding the car. Even if
you wipe the sparking plugs the cylinders will be flooded. You have to
cranck the engine without fuel supply.
IF THE CAR IS INJECTION AND FLOODED you have to look at the sensors for air
temperature and whatever else have you (I am not good at this trick).
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IF the car is INJECTION and is NOT FLOODED
(summer time is harder to flood a car). I had that in my old 900EMS but it
happened when the engine was warm. The injectors were blocked. When
eventually it refused to start outside the SAAB dealer, I removed a sparking
plug and it was bone dry. They gave me 1 litre of cleanning fluid (should
only be used once or twice in the lifetime of a car). I put the whole
container in full tank of fuel and never looked back.
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If you want send me an email directly as well as to the list (for some
reason it takes longer for List emails to arrive to me). I'll see what else
I can tell you.
Regards
Charles
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