Snakebreaks
10-10-2009, 12:08 AM
Here we go again eh? Another damn kid with a problem lol.
I just realized the length of this post, so please bear with it, I'm sorry I drug it out, but hopefully it will help. I will do ANYTHING anyone can recommend. I am no slacker. I will do the damn thing.
Consider this my introduction please! My name's Cody. I call cigarettes snakes for some reason.
I don't smoke (since new years, not one) I don't do drugs. I'm joining the Navy to be a Linguist of some sort... this week. Don't know when I ship out though.
I didn't want to post this.. and I've worked hard on my car for awhile now, trying to fix this on my own.. but I'm running out of time to get my mkII 85 p type running good, ready for storage. Its gotta drive there because it has gotta be able to drive out.
I was driving normally for... and hour+. At the time and before the car ran great, always, no problems whatsoever engine wise, and then the engine dropped dead totally randomly, while cruising at about 30, 35mph. I was shocked, to be sure. It wouldn't start, but turned over fine.
5 months ago. Before summer. Right after I lost my job. :sadsmilie
I was on a mission at the time, left it at a library, got it towed home later.... <-- (b.s.)
My current sensory symptoms: Engine turns over and sounds fine/good, and turns at a normal speed. Knocking noise at the ecu/intake? Afm flap? Never noticed it until after trying to start it a few times at the library. Has done it since. Sounds like it wants to start.
Car was probably beat throughout its life pretty hard.. I couldn't help it lol... ran great while I had it though...164xxx miles. Idled great. Was in top shape. Drove for 6 months before this, maybe more. Recently replaced oil and oil filter with good oil... put some lucas oil 100% petroleum in there, tightened the valve covers, and fixed that damn pesky oil leak with that action.
(lol side story has anyone ever have their oil leak onto their alternator so much so that one of the magnets inside of the alternator fused with the plastic, and you only had half recharge capabilities.. and were 40 miles from home? 3500 rpms extends your life battery for about 15 minutes. fixed alternator for $35 (new magnet piece jawnny)). < fixed this and changed oil simultaneously.
Drove about 500 miles after that, so that's unrelated? I did see a thread about why lucas sucks.. and its probably true.. but the engine sounded fine, always. And in shop class in high school I was bored and read the lucas promotions, and turned the little gears, and thought it was good stuff. little did I know eh?
I suspected fuel pump immediately, because I'm a novice mechanic... so I replaced it. :duh: there went $160. Before I realized my mistake, all pissed off, i tossed away the box for the new pump, AND the old pump itself, without testing it! :32:
I could have used a nice 255lph walbro upgrade... cheaper too! damn my inexperience to hell!
Getting the fuel pump out I broke the fuel line.. loosening the banjo bolt at the fuel line, from the fuel pump harness/drop in tank/holster thing. The fuel line broke on the line side, not pump side.:duh: I cut the line, and bent flanges on both sides.
Diagram for fun:
/=( 5in )================================fuel filter here.
____/___ ^ five inch braided injector hose there ^fuel line there
| |_| |
|______|
^fuel tank and pump here
I fitted a 5/16 or 1/4 inch braided fuel injector hose (Will 10% ethanol eat through that hose? how fast?:sadsmilie .. didn't think of that problem at the time) It fit great with fuel injector hose clamps, with no leaks under pressure whatsoever.
Taking the fuel line off and replacing it with a new one was damn near impossible, because I had no help in this endeavor, and there were bolts above the transmission.. screw that I said. I'm sure I will have to soon tho. I want at least a 7m, or a very worked 5m. I'm considering rebuilding this.. but not for awhile I suppose.
I also replaced the fuel filter, and then bled the line w/ a paper clip (awesome idea, wish I knew b4..) to see if my flow was good up until the filter, it was, leaked everywhere. Awesome!
That's all back together now perfectly as can be, and I haven't messed with any farther up the line (injectors, fuel rail). (I dont know how to and don't have a pressure tester.. and I don't even know where the injectors are, or the cold start one is to be honest.)
Things I haven't checked:
I have not tried starting fluid, unsure where to spray exactly.. I know in the intake manifold, what is easiest way?
Injectors, fuel rail pressure.
Timing belt, camshaft, distributor.
Compression. I've never opened the engine and it sounds fine.
I haven't taken the cap of the distributor, or the timing belt cover.
So I read Tanya's sticky awhile ago, and realized I showed my lack of experience with mechanics in my efforts superbly. So, I got a multi-meter, and tested all my fuses (not my relays though, i've tried, but not sure how still. Help? I know you leave'm plugged in w/ ign on eng off...) and was stumped. All fuses were fine. (nrly but i replaced the bad ones)
Spark then!
I pulled my boot off the first cylinder plug, held it to my strut tower, turned the engine, nada. Checked #2, the same.
(front to back? 1,2,3,4,5,6? Is that the cylinder order?)
Checked the HT wire off the coil where it meets the distributor, and nothing. No spark arc to the distributor, or to the strut tower.
Checked the ignition coil's resistance... it read fine, primary and secondary. Then I checked the ignitor's voltage, perfect.
And that is where I am. I read earlier a good idea to swap ignitors temporarily to test.. but I don't see any Mk2s my way.... Well.. I saw a two tone blue one parked at a house once, and a grey one near my work 3 times but never again lol..Any offers? I'm 15 minutes from Philly. I'd pay gas! pm!
I thought it was my wires two days ago, which I am due to replace tomorrow. I didn't really understand resistance when I checked my stuff though, but what I do understand right now is that the wires need to be less than 25k ohms and have continuity. Which they do, all of them. I can't remember what they do have exactly, but it's more than 0/nada, or whatever. Like 3k. or 1k. So they're good, right?
They came with the car, I believe the guy I got it from said he had just replaced plugs and wires... But I still find myself meeting zuprax85 tomorrow for his ngks, and have some ngk g powers sitting in front of me I bought earlier...
I know I need to follow the tsrm's testing steps, but until today I thought the wires were bad... to be honest I thought the coil was bad too, but it wasn't, and now I have two...
I spent a lot of time learning today. As I do everyday on this site... but still I don't know where the distributor pick up coil is, or what it is. That I haven't looked up... but its bedtime now and I'm tired of editing... lol. I've got a new rotor for the distributor yet to be put on (big day tomorrow).
I've read every post I could find (besides the 3 tabs open now) and I'm pretty.. :32: frustrated. I'm sure you all know the feeling.
please help! thank you all. ~ Cody
I just realized the length of this post, so please bear with it, I'm sorry I drug it out, but hopefully it will help. I will do ANYTHING anyone can recommend. I am no slacker. I will do the damn thing.
Consider this my introduction please! My name's Cody. I call cigarettes snakes for some reason.
I don't smoke (since new years, not one) I don't do drugs. I'm joining the Navy to be a Linguist of some sort... this week. Don't know when I ship out though.
I didn't want to post this.. and I've worked hard on my car for awhile now, trying to fix this on my own.. but I'm running out of time to get my mkII 85 p type running good, ready for storage. Its gotta drive there because it has gotta be able to drive out.
I was driving normally for... and hour+. At the time and before the car ran great, always, no problems whatsoever engine wise, and then the engine dropped dead totally randomly, while cruising at about 30, 35mph. I was shocked, to be sure. It wouldn't start, but turned over fine.
5 months ago. Before summer. Right after I lost my job. :sadsmilie
I was on a mission at the time, left it at a library, got it towed home later.... <-- (b.s.)
My current sensory symptoms: Engine turns over and sounds fine/good, and turns at a normal speed. Knocking noise at the ecu/intake? Afm flap? Never noticed it until after trying to start it a few times at the library. Has done it since. Sounds like it wants to start.
Car was probably beat throughout its life pretty hard.. I couldn't help it lol... ran great while I had it though...164xxx miles. Idled great. Was in top shape. Drove for 6 months before this, maybe more. Recently replaced oil and oil filter with good oil... put some lucas oil 100% petroleum in there, tightened the valve covers, and fixed that damn pesky oil leak with that action.
(lol side story has anyone ever have their oil leak onto their alternator so much so that one of the magnets inside of the alternator fused with the plastic, and you only had half recharge capabilities.. and were 40 miles from home? 3500 rpms extends your life battery for about 15 minutes. fixed alternator for $35 (new magnet piece jawnny)). < fixed this and changed oil simultaneously.
Drove about 500 miles after that, so that's unrelated? I did see a thread about why lucas sucks.. and its probably true.. but the engine sounded fine, always. And in shop class in high school I was bored and read the lucas promotions, and turned the little gears, and thought it was good stuff. little did I know eh?
I suspected fuel pump immediately, because I'm a novice mechanic... so I replaced it. :duh: there went $160. Before I realized my mistake, all pissed off, i tossed away the box for the new pump, AND the old pump itself, without testing it! :32:
I could have used a nice 255lph walbro upgrade... cheaper too! damn my inexperience to hell!
Getting the fuel pump out I broke the fuel line.. loosening the banjo bolt at the fuel line, from the fuel pump harness/drop in tank/holster thing. The fuel line broke on the line side, not pump side.:duh: I cut the line, and bent flanges on both sides.
Diagram for fun:
/=( 5in )================================fuel filter here.
____/___ ^ five inch braided injector hose there ^fuel line there
| |_| |
|______|
^fuel tank and pump here
I fitted a 5/16 or 1/4 inch braided fuel injector hose (Will 10% ethanol eat through that hose? how fast?:sadsmilie .. didn't think of that problem at the time) It fit great with fuel injector hose clamps, with no leaks under pressure whatsoever.
Taking the fuel line off and replacing it with a new one was damn near impossible, because I had no help in this endeavor, and there were bolts above the transmission.. screw that I said. I'm sure I will have to soon tho. I want at least a 7m, or a very worked 5m. I'm considering rebuilding this.. but not for awhile I suppose.
I also replaced the fuel filter, and then bled the line w/ a paper clip (awesome idea, wish I knew b4..) to see if my flow was good up until the filter, it was, leaked everywhere. Awesome!
That's all back together now perfectly as can be, and I haven't messed with any farther up the line (injectors, fuel rail). (I dont know how to and don't have a pressure tester.. and I don't even know where the injectors are, or the cold start one is to be honest.)
Things I haven't checked:
I have not tried starting fluid, unsure where to spray exactly.. I know in the intake manifold, what is easiest way?
Injectors, fuel rail pressure.
Timing belt, camshaft, distributor.
Compression. I've never opened the engine and it sounds fine.
I haven't taken the cap of the distributor, or the timing belt cover.
So I read Tanya's sticky awhile ago, and realized I showed my lack of experience with mechanics in my efforts superbly. So, I got a multi-meter, and tested all my fuses (not my relays though, i've tried, but not sure how still. Help? I know you leave'm plugged in w/ ign on eng off...) and was stumped. All fuses were fine. (nrly but i replaced the bad ones)
Spark then!
I pulled my boot off the first cylinder plug, held it to my strut tower, turned the engine, nada. Checked #2, the same.
(front to back? 1,2,3,4,5,6? Is that the cylinder order?)
Checked the HT wire off the coil where it meets the distributor, and nothing. No spark arc to the distributor, or to the strut tower.
Checked the ignition coil's resistance... it read fine, primary and secondary. Then I checked the ignitor's voltage, perfect.
And that is where I am. I read earlier a good idea to swap ignitors temporarily to test.. but I don't see any Mk2s my way.... Well.. I saw a two tone blue one parked at a house once, and a grey one near my work 3 times but never again lol..Any offers? I'm 15 minutes from Philly. I'd pay gas! pm!
I thought it was my wires two days ago, which I am due to replace tomorrow. I didn't really understand resistance when I checked my stuff though, but what I do understand right now is that the wires need to be less than 25k ohms and have continuity. Which they do, all of them. I can't remember what they do have exactly, but it's more than 0/nada, or whatever. Like 3k. or 1k. So they're good, right?
They came with the car, I believe the guy I got it from said he had just replaced plugs and wires... But I still find myself meeting zuprax85 tomorrow for his ngks, and have some ngk g powers sitting in front of me I bought earlier...
I know I need to follow the tsrm's testing steps, but until today I thought the wires were bad... to be honest I thought the coil was bad too, but it wasn't, and now I have two...
I spent a lot of time learning today. As I do everyday on this site... but still I don't know where the distributor pick up coil is, or what it is. That I haven't looked up... but its bedtime now and I'm tired of editing... lol. I've got a new rotor for the distributor yet to be put on (big day tomorrow).
I've read every post I could find (besides the 3 tabs open now) and I'm pretty.. :32: frustrated. I'm sure you all know the feeling.
please help! thank you all. ~ Cody