my car stalled on me yesterday for no reason, the revs dropped right off and kept doin it after i turnbed it back over. Had to rev the shit outta it to move it n park. i pulled over to find that one of the hoses running into the firewall had split n was spitting coolant out. I did a quick fix (cloth tape etc) but found that when i started her up it just stalled again. Fixed it all up today (think coolant must have been playin funnny buggers with the electrics.now its running really rich, i still have to adjust the idle a bit but how do i adjust the fuel/air mix. Its making this horrible baffling noise, kinda like its chokin a little.Whats goin on, also the idle is being a little eratic, up n down when i stop. No blown HG symptoms tho, have a new timing belt n engine mounts which was stuffin it up last time.ANy ideas?
sounds like coolant may have split down into the spark plug holes? And shorting out the spark?
Pull off the spark leads and grab an air compressor and blow out the moisture.
The other main area to check is the distributer. Take off the spark leads, detach the distributer cap and make sure there is no moisture in there.
Running rich usually indicates fuel, but no spark. So check the above first, before diving in and pulling out injector connectors etc.
EDIT: Oh, there is no accurate way to adjust the air/fuel mixtures on a stock 3SGE. You can play with the AFM slightly, by tensioning the internal spring etc, but its not the best way to go about tuning the car. Your O2 sensor could have been damaged as well.. that will be worth a look if the above doesn't help
Sun, 14 December 2003 10:38
