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OK, so you are getting injector pulse…I think you showed spark using an timing light…just pull the plug wire off the coil pack and keep about a 1/2 inch or so distance between them…see if the spark jumps while cranking… do a plug wire on each bank…each bank has its own ground and both banks are joined with an eye terminal behind the left cylinder head !!
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Here is the test I just did for the left side coil pack. I will also attach the one I did before for the right side (it is the one that is out of focus). Both show spark during the cranking and before the engine starts. I am thinking of trying this again but pulling the fuses for the injectors before I hit the start button. When it starts crank wait a second then plug the fuses back in and see if it starts right up. I would hope this would tell me if the engine control computer is dumping in extra fuel, flooding the cylinders causing the extra crank time. Your thoughts? Thanks, Dan
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My idea seems to not be showing what I had hopped. You can see in the video I hit the start button then single for my neighbor to push in the fuses and there seems to be no difference then when the fuses were in place to start with. What do you think? Any other ideas after seeing these tests? Thanks Dan
