[Shotimes] Re: Leaky FI
Carl Prochilo
gr8sho@prochilo.myserver.org
Wed, 7 Sep 2005 08:51:57 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
Check Shotimes. And contrary to what it says, you do want to smack the
accelerator or the test will fail. Over 4000 RPMs.
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Cheers,
Carl Prochilo
92 Ultra Red Crimson
On Sun, August 28, 2005 8:56 pm, Alan Fanning said:
> There's a diagnostic procedure that can be run as part of the KOER tests
> to
> see if any cylinder is running different than the others. Don't recall the
> details but perhaps someone can chime in...
>
> Alan
>
>
> wrote:
>
>> I'd suspect a clogged one. Seems more common. There is a tiny little
>> screen
>> in each injector that can clog. Plus they get carbon deposits near the
>> tip
>> and don't distribute fuel very well. The larger particles are harder to
>> burn, so it runs lean with a bad spray pattern. When the motor heats up,
>> everthing atomizes better anyway.
>> You are supposed to be able to listen to them with a stethoscope and a
>> sticking one will click different. The manual says to unplug the harness
>> at
>> each injector but that's not easy on a SHO. I'm going to try a can of
>> injector cleaner on mine. That should help. If that doesn't work, I'll
>> try
>> to listen, then I'll probably just change them out with a cleaned set.
>> Lee
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