Simon Tibbett
01-01-2006, 10:34 PM
Ok, I just got this car from a trade Christmas Eve. Since I got it, it ran a little wierd but never broke down. At lights sometimes a little gas RPM's will drop and try to stall. So you have to ease on the gas lightly and start slow. Also driving at low RPM it would kind of surge.
Yesterday going to my girlfriends house I turned in her driveway (uphill) and got on the gas a little. It shut off. I tried to start it up wouldnt start. So I rolled back down her driveway to a parking lot. She came down and we checked for spark. Spark was fine. So that made me think fuel related. You can hear the pump primer. Still no start. So then I got mad and banged the pump with a hammer, it started and stalled. Then I banged it again harder and it started, but was running really rough. Sounded like it was ticking like an exhaust leak. I had it running enough to get back to her house.
I changed the fuel pump, still the same. Checked to see if the fuel filter was clogged. No, gas came out hard and clean.
Checked spark plugs, they were pretty dirty. Wet and smelt like gas. Now I started the car after cleaning them. It started. I ran it and revved it up high. It smoothened out from the 3 cylinder feeling. It was running on four. After that it idled fine but small gas it bogged down.
I shut it off and it wouldnt start back. So I took plugs back out. Cleaned again, car sputtered but didnt fully start. Could a sensor be bad causing the car to foul the plugs do to too much gas and not enough air?
After all that though I have a new problem. I was going to throw new plugs in and see, but now the car wont turn over. It ticks really fast. Like coming from the starter. What now?! Starter relay? Starter itself? Battery? Any ideas or help? Any pics of a KA24E with the sensors labeled? Any help greatly appreciated, thanks!
Yesterday going to my girlfriends house I turned in her driveway (uphill) and got on the gas a little. It shut off. I tried to start it up wouldnt start. So I rolled back down her driveway to a parking lot. She came down and we checked for spark. Spark was fine. So that made me think fuel related. You can hear the pump primer. Still no start. So then I got mad and banged the pump with a hammer, it started and stalled. Then I banged it again harder and it started, but was running really rough. Sounded like it was ticking like an exhaust leak. I had it running enough to get back to her house.
I changed the fuel pump, still the same. Checked to see if the fuel filter was clogged. No, gas came out hard and clean.
Checked spark plugs, they were pretty dirty. Wet and smelt like gas. Now I started the car after cleaning them. It started. I ran it and revved it up high. It smoothened out from the 3 cylinder feeling. It was running on four. After that it idled fine but small gas it bogged down.
I shut it off and it wouldnt start back. So I took plugs back out. Cleaned again, car sputtered but didnt fully start. Could a sensor be bad causing the car to foul the plugs do to too much gas and not enough air?
After all that though I have a new problem. I was going to throw new plugs in and see, but now the car wont turn over. It ticks really fast. Like coming from the starter. What now?! Starter relay? Starter itself? Battery? Any ideas or help? Any pics of a KA24E with the sensors labeled? Any help greatly appreciated, thanks!