[Help]Car still won't start
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Le Mans Master
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Originally Posted by Redeasysport
To check your injectors get a white 5 gal bucket and pull the rails.Put them in the bucket and have someone turn the car over and watch the flow.
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Le Mans Master
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Ok big WTF, just drained some gas and it seems their is somethingi n my gas that might have clogged the injectors. You can see gas and then in it their is something that looks completely different and separate almost milky looking. I wondered if someone put something in my gas tank but I have a locking cap. What could this be just bad gas from the pump. It happened a the day after filling up and after filling up I probably only drove about 15 miles.
Le Mans Master
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and I'd head back to the station and ask, what's up? some of the 76 stations out here were paying to have their customers injectors cleaned. Now I'm kinda wondering if you didn't get some Diesel.
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Originally Posted by rick lambert
and I'd head back to the station and ask, what's up? some of the 76 stations out here were paying to have their customers injectors cleaned. Now I'm kinda wondering if you didn't get some Diesel.
Le Mans Master
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Well they can be cleaned but I've heard it cost some where around $100. Could be less. New injectors could cost about $200 or so. I would contact the last place you bought gas and see if anyone else has had this type of problem with them, before I did anything.
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Originally Posted by RRT vette
Well they can be cleaned but I've heard it cost some where around $100. Could be less. New injectors could cost about $200 or so. I would contact the last place you bought gas and see if anyone else has had this type of problem with them, before I did anything.
Le Mans Master
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It probably won't go anywhere unless others have reported this problem with them. It sucks, and is no better than someone putting sugar in the gas tank. Rick said he wonders if it was diesel??? Surely not but sh** happens all the time. How many miles do the injectors have on them now?
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Originally Posted by RRT vette
It probably won't go anywhere unless others have reported this problem with them. It sucks, and is no better than someone putting sugar in the gas tank. Rick said he wonders if it was diesel??? Surely not but sh** happens all the time. How many miles do the injectors have on them now?
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Yeah the injector will need to be cleaned by a shop or replace because they are closed in and that stuff not going anywhere unless taken out. If they gas station won't pay then if 60 mile I would just have them cleaned and if 60,000 miles I would get new ones. IMO
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Originally Posted by RRT vette
Yeah the injector will need to be cleaned by a shop or replace because they are closed in and that stuff not going anywhere unless taken out. If they gas station won't pay then if 60 mile I would just have them cleaned and if 60,000 miles I would get new ones. IMO
Le Mans Master
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Alot of guys here use Five-O-Motorsports injectors. I have also seen people flame Accel injectors. I have 24lb Accel injectors in my 86 and my stock is 22lbs. I believe yours are 24lbs stock. Look on Ebay and see what they have. I think I paid $260 shipped from Jegs for mine but you can find them cheaper than that. Good luck!
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Before you go off and get new injectors run some SeaFoam through that puppy...might just clean em right up.BTW, when I use SeaFoam, I put 1/2 can in gas, the other 1/2 I put through the brake booster line, but keep the RPMs up around 1500-1800.It will smoke like hell...but don't worry.
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Glad you got it figured out.Definately a strange one.I have had bad gas twice in the last year but not as bad as you got.Just made the car run crappy but it still ran.Stick with Tier One suppliers from now on I use Shell but Chevron is good too.
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St. Jude Donor '05-'06
Originally Posted by rick lambert
Before you go off and get new injectors run some SeaFoam through that puppy...might just clean em right up.BTW, when I use SeaFoam, I put 1/2 can in gas, the other 1/2 I put through the brake booster line, but keep the RPMs up around 1500-1800.It will smoke like hell...but don't worry.
After running some cleaner through mine all was well.