Okinawandrifter87
11-15-2007, 08:19 AM
I tried searching under fuel flood, engine flood, fuel, etc and could not find anything at all!
Sooo last night me and some friends got my sr running in my hatchback. I made the stupid mistake of not driving it around for 15-20 mins before I took it back home. So I started to drive the car home with my friends following me and everything seemed to be going fine, ran perfect and strong. About 10 mins away from the house my car started to smell like something was burning. I wasnt sure what was burning just cause im not that mechanically inclined but Im learning. So at the light the car just dies. And there is smoke coming from the passenger side of the dash. So me and my friends push the car to the side and I pop the hood. I was surprised there was no smoke which only meant something with the ecu!:-/ My friend grabbed the ecu and it was burning hot he said. He looked closer and one of the wires to the ecu melted. I couldnt really see cause it was late last night, so who knows maybe a couple more melted. So I go to look in the engine bay to see if anything else is wrong when thru the corner of my eye I see something shooting out liquid from a tube. I look closer to see fuel coming out of a vacuum line! :confused: My friends towed it back to their place and I went home to sleep. They said last night they took off the intake tube off the throttle body and its completely full of fuel, and that the throttle plate is under water/ fuel? Its like the fuel built up in the intake manifold and overflowed into the vacuum line.
Does anyone have any helpful ideas or suggestions? This may be a simple problem that was made by a simple mistake or it may have just happened over time on its own, maybe it isnt at all.. I dont know, but please someone guide in the right direction if you know what to do or have experienced this. Thanks again everyone for your contribution and please no flaming here.
Sooo last night me and some friends got my sr running in my hatchback. I made the stupid mistake of not driving it around for 15-20 mins before I took it back home. So I started to drive the car home with my friends following me and everything seemed to be going fine, ran perfect and strong. About 10 mins away from the house my car started to smell like something was burning. I wasnt sure what was burning just cause im not that mechanically inclined but Im learning. So at the light the car just dies. And there is smoke coming from the passenger side of the dash. So me and my friends push the car to the side and I pop the hood. I was surprised there was no smoke which only meant something with the ecu!:-/ My friend grabbed the ecu and it was burning hot he said. He looked closer and one of the wires to the ecu melted. I couldnt really see cause it was late last night, so who knows maybe a couple more melted. So I go to look in the engine bay to see if anything else is wrong when thru the corner of my eye I see something shooting out liquid from a tube. I look closer to see fuel coming out of a vacuum line! :confused: My friends towed it back to their place and I went home to sleep. They said last night they took off the intake tube off the throttle body and its completely full of fuel, and that the throttle plate is under water/ fuel? Its like the fuel built up in the intake manifold and overflowed into the vacuum line.
Does anyone have any helpful ideas or suggestions? This may be a simple problem that was made by a simple mistake or it may have just happened over time on its own, maybe it isnt at all.. I dont know, but please someone guide in the right direction if you know what to do or have experienced this. Thanks again everyone for your contribution and please no flaming here.