Originally Posted by
paulee
Hi mate Thanks for the reply and help.
Yea it had stood for years when i bought it then i mot`d it but cant get the engine sorted.
Just do them one at a time? loosen them off and squirt it into a bottle , same as checking cold start valve? I am going to put my original metering head back on today anyway.
And no the fuel gauge dont work but last week i had a vapour lock in fuel tank(first time its happened in a year since i bought it ) so had to release fuel hose so i know whats in it , also mechanic had changed it few weeks ago same with filter he said i had water in it from sitting a while so he drained it , no difference. Also before i bought it some dafty jacked the fuel tank up lol. And also he was ment to have my injectors sent away to be cleaned few month back.
Going to try clean auto choke ( no idea if its got anything to do with it ) and run it about town see if the warm up reg blocks back up :/
It runs great once it actually starts...
cheers again paul
ill try and remember what i was doing after i rebuilt my engine .. bare in mind its an rs not too sure about the xr3i..
Yeh take the little holding in plates off the inlet manifold and pull the injectors and stick each one in a pot or plastic bottle. On the rs i bridged the fuel relay from memory then take off the air filter and push the flap of the metering unit down and it should squirt fuel out the injectors.
Another one that seems to help to get them started is bump starting it down the road ( not ideal in your case ) .
sounds like there,s a few other potential issues down the line .
Do they xr3i's have the white coolant temp sender in the manifold like the rs ? that tells the ECU the temperature / enrichment whatever and can cause poor starting. i changed mine back years ago.
Be cool to see it in person and have a tinker..bit hard to think now without having it in front of me.