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    Fouling plugs.... Help

    Hay all,

    I flicked it onto petrol the other day cos I wanted to go fast... Well as fast as a rangie can go. And I noticed it was running like crap, it seems like fouled plugs, so got home and whipped them out and bango yep and black!!! Through in new set and like magic, running perfect again. After a day I whipped one out just to check And noticed it was starting to get black.... Buggar. So after 5 days of mainly running on gas and then flicking back to petrol she's running really rich and missing again, well running badly. I am going to check the usual, leads, cap, etc but I thought if these were beggared it would happen on gas as well,

    So I'm thinking something else, anyone have a direction??

    Oh oh oh. I plugged in rovergauge (this is a great tool!!!!!) helped me heaps of times, and the only fault is steeper motor,


    Oh it's a hotwire 3.9 top end.


    Cheers nat

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    It could be one of a few things. Black means overfueling, were the plugs wet when you pulled them after driving on Petrol?

    Leaking injectors can do this as the drip fuel after they are supposed to be closed after firing.

    A faulty MAF can also over rich your fuel, as the LPG system wouldn't use the MAF it will not shop up on LPG running.
    Give the IAC (Stepper) a good clean also with solvent, I doubt it is your problem though.

    You could pull the injector and see if they are ok at the injecting end. I had the ends on mine disappear on a couple as I always ran on LPG and did not switch to petrol from time to time as recommended. The pintal and screen was missing so on petrol those injectors were just dropping a load out but not correctly
    cheers, Mario


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    Hay mate,
    The injectors are 5 months old, brand new ones (yep I knew a Guy), yep defiantly over fueling. I thought it may be the afm, but I'm running a 3.9 hotwire and a 4.6 bottom end.

    I'm assuming I need a exhaust gas analyser to retune it soo it won't lean out.

    I was thinking of buying a brand new one. Do they make brand new factory ones, I'm reading bad reports about buying one off the net... eBay especially.

    I've read that you can test. The afm by testing the ohms on the two end wires, and if it's hitting @@@ (anyone know what the readings should be, all I can find is a %40 figure which doesn't help much) it's bad, cos the rovergauge is telling nothing wrong.

    I've tried cleaning the stepper motor, leaks.

    Cheers Nat

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    Have you checked the ECU temp sensor? That's the temp sensor behind the thermostat housing with a 2 wire plug like an injector plug. It should read around 300 ohms with a hot engine.

    Also check that the hose for the fuel pressure regulator hasn't fallen off the vac port on the back of the manifold. It will run very rich with this hose off.

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    When I was redoing the idle base, I realised that the fuel pressure hose had come off. I might check it cuts, (I didn't do that) I zip tied it on maybe its buggered.

    When you say check the 300 ohms do you mean between the point points?

    I'll check these tomorrow and let ya know.

    Thank you Jilden

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