Motorhead
01-04-2015, 04:11 PM
TL; DR -- WOT. No power. Rich as fuck. Gotta be ignition. Right? Backfires like hell after I let off. Revs fine, idles fine. Any kind of load, you can hear the turbo spooling great, gets louder, no real acceleration. Doesn't buck though.
So a couple weeks ago some thieves came through my apartment complex and broke into my car, stealing most of my tools out of the trunk and shit. That plays into the story in a minute.
Fast forward to several days ago, I fired up my car to head to work, no suspicious stuff until I backed out of my spot and before I could react, it seemed to lazily just die off. Like it ran out of fuel... so I immediately think "Fuckin thieves siphoned my gas...?" Because some neighbors in my complex said they noticed they'd been fueling up more often.
So I push it back to my parking spot and leave it, take the girlfriend's car to work. Come home, grab a gas can, pour 3.5 gallons in the car... 10:30pm... still won't start, even after priming the pump a few times. Now I'm suspecting they might have sabotaged my tank or some shit.
Wait til following morning, almost fires, seems like it wants to hit on a cylinder or two, and tried a little more when I attempted starting it at WOT for a few cranks but still wouldn't hit.
This morning I hop in it, try it, priming pump a few times, today is considerably warmer. It finally hits and fires up like nothing was wrong so I'm like "Okay it finally got enough fuel to pick up in the lines..." and babied it to the gas station .7 miles away.
Prayed that it'd start up and run fine, on return trip I noticed it sounded like the turbo was spooling more than normal... then noticed I could go WOT all I wanted, it got louder but really didn't accelerate at all. Back in parking spot at home and noticed it Revs fine, and idles just fine. and the turbo sounds like it's working fine...
I'm leaning towards coils, but is there some way of knowing without throwing parts at it? My tools were all stolen so I really don't have much in the way of jerking all of it apart. I just have super basic shit on hand.
Anyone willing to help me troubleshoot this?
TL; DR WOT. No power. Rich as fuck. Gotta be ignition. Right? Backfires like hell after I let off. Revs fine, idles fine. Any kind of load, you can hear the turbo spooling great, gets louder, no real acceleration. Doesn't buck though.
So a couple weeks ago some thieves came through my apartment complex and broke into my car, stealing most of my tools out of the trunk and shit. That plays into the story in a minute.
Fast forward to several days ago, I fired up my car to head to work, no suspicious stuff until I backed out of my spot and before I could react, it seemed to lazily just die off. Like it ran out of fuel... so I immediately think "Fuckin thieves siphoned my gas...?" Because some neighbors in my complex said they noticed they'd been fueling up more often.
So I push it back to my parking spot and leave it, take the girlfriend's car to work. Come home, grab a gas can, pour 3.5 gallons in the car... 10:30pm... still won't start, even after priming the pump a few times. Now I'm suspecting they might have sabotaged my tank or some shit.
Wait til following morning, almost fires, seems like it wants to hit on a cylinder or two, and tried a little more when I attempted starting it at WOT for a few cranks but still wouldn't hit.
This morning I hop in it, try it, priming pump a few times, today is considerably warmer. It finally hits and fires up like nothing was wrong so I'm like "Okay it finally got enough fuel to pick up in the lines..." and babied it to the gas station .7 miles away.
Prayed that it'd start up and run fine, on return trip I noticed it sounded like the turbo was spooling more than normal... then noticed I could go WOT all I wanted, it got louder but really didn't accelerate at all. Back in parking spot at home and noticed it Revs fine, and idles just fine. and the turbo sounds like it's working fine...
I'm leaning towards coils, but is there some way of knowing without throwing parts at it? My tools were all stolen so I really don't have much in the way of jerking all of it apart. I just have super basic shit on hand.
Anyone willing to help me troubleshoot this?
TL; DR WOT. No power. Rich as fuck. Gotta be ignition. Right? Backfires like hell after I let off. Revs fine, idles fine. Any kind of load, you can hear the turbo spooling great, gets louder, no real acceleration. Doesn't buck though.