help, engine dies at startup - (56k Warning - SOLVED)

[Bean]

cheers - I'll take the notebook along and stay in touch...

[meshin]

Bean Bandit Wrote:anyone any other last minute tips before I go to the garage?

Play around with distributor...

Let someone crank the car and while it's cranking you turn the distributor left and right.. try it couple of times and see what is happening.

One 4AGE after small rebuild refused to fire up.. and everything seemed perfect. Playing with distributor solved things..


Good luck

[Bean]

irishtwincam Wrote:-Check for air lock in fuel line.
-Loosen 22 on fuel rail, crank until fuel squirts out
-----REMEMBER TO RETIGHTEN

couldn't find it in the manual, which bolt do you mean ? I'm very close now it starts and dies out again as if the was not enough fuel...

EDIT: ok fuelling is defo ok... the engine spluters briefly (2-3sec) then dies...

[Bean]

ok so I set the timing as good as I could with the pictures and it's starts up briefly ~3 sec and then suts... if I push the throttle it shuts too... - i checked the vac hoses and they are fine so...

timing okish
timing belt ok
sparks ok
fuel ok

in those 3 sec startups it reaches around 1000rpm a bit more with little throttle befor the engin dies...
after 2 trys I need to wait for a while... guess it's flooded then...

anyone, i'm still at the garage and would love to change to the corolla from the slow Kia Picanto I have

[mrgud]

Man, check your grounds... (I had the similar problm), just do it...
If you took the head off you had to take off the ground wireing of the intake manifold. Check if that is back...

The engine must have fuel, spark and air... And if you have those 3 and still doesn't wont to fire up, do UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM, breath in, breath out, save your nerves, close up the garage, come back after a few days (if possible, not alone), and check everything in school order...

Fingers crossed. I coudn't fire up my junk for 3 weeks, almost pushed it in the river... and we sat by the car, think about it and just ran it from top to bottom... Meshin helped with the wireing, we found the loose ground and WROM!


Just go slow and save your nerves...

PS
(voodoo doesn't help... I tryed that too )

[Bean]

hurray - thanks mrgud , the ground did the trick... must have overlooked it burryed under the loom.



purs like a kitten

[mrgud]

hehehe!!! Great man!!! I am so happy to hear that!
That shit took me 3 weeks of work and a shit load of nervs...

Glad to be of help!

[meshin]

Don't f*** bevlive the someone made same mistake like mrgud...

Great you solved it...

[Bean]

meshin Wrote:Don't f*** bevlive the someone made same mistake like mrgud...

Great you solved it...

it hapens quite quickly if you don't activly think about refiting the ground as its under the chunky loom hidden away in a very narrow spot where you don't enjoy to work

it's a pleasure to be on the road again... tomorrow I will do a small service (oil, plugs, water), fit my new mintex pads and go for a long good drive

[meshin]

Bean Bandit Wrote:it hapens quite quickly if you don't activly think about refiting the ground as its under the chunky loom hidden away in a very narrow spot where you don't enjoy to

You are lucky ... mrgud, me .. and a lot of other people who helped took whole 3 weeks messing around till we found that loose ECU ground wire