Thread: Won't fire just winds over

Originally Posted by disco dan

I was on compression stroke and it spewed a heap of fuel out. What would cause this.

Originally Posted by bee utey

They flood real easy. Try cranking it with your loud pedal mashed to the carpet.

That's how quick they can flood (EFI) .... "Foot mashed" turns OFF fuel when cranking.



Remove ALL spark plugs and clean / dry them ...
Wind motor over to remove excess fuel (Foot mashed to floor)
Install spark plugs

Try starting it by winding it over in 1/2 second intervals ....

Cheers
Mike

Ok so the foot to the floor isn't the go. I'm pulling plugs tonight. Then wind over to clear. Will check for compression stroke and that it's firing then. I know it has spark. And fuel. I have recently put refurbed injectors in and it started fine so I think my issue was dizzy.

Originally Posted by disco dan

Ok so the foot to the floor isn't the go

Foot to the floor: IS the go ..... to stop (EFI) fuel flow (flooding).

Foot to the floor: helps flooded carby engines clear their throats also

Cheers
Mike

It could also be full of fuel from a holed fuel pressure regulator. Take the vacuum hose off the back of the manifold that goes to the reg, check for fuel dribble.

Just a thought. Once you have cleared all the petrol. Why not try starting it on gas? If beeuty is right about the reg allowing fuel passed the wrong way it probably wont start because it will have too much and mixed fuel. You could disconnect the fuel pump to avoid this. But if it starts and runs on gas. It's not likely to be the dizzy.

Yeah I would but it's out of gas. It did start on fuel but was rough as hadn't been run on fuel for a while. When I bought it last year the bloke said he only used gas. So to fix that I got fully refurbed injectors which I installed and cleaned the fuel rail at the same time. Once done I kicked it over and she fired up fine and ran nice. I tried to turn the dizzy which is how I broke the vacuum advance. I then fixed that temp until the new one came. So it did run on fuel before I change the dizzy once we changed it didn't so something is out on the dizzy which is why I'm checking the tdc and spark to make sure it's all good. It only fills when I wind it over to start it.

Pulled all plugs dried them and wound over to clear cylinders. Check tdc off piston and rotor position. Checked if it got spark at that time which it did by turning dizzy over no1 while ignition on. Reinstalled all and went to turn over got a slight sound of a kick and then nothing again just winding over. Anyone know a landie mech in Gold Coast area who can come to me

Tried starting it with Aerostart? No petrol, just a healthy squirt into the inlet.

Next trick is to find some connectors to connect a bbq bottle to your gas filler, decant some bang fluid into your tanks and get it to run on gas at least.

The gas filling gizmo.