Even with the air sensor plate at rest position some fuel must flow. How would you expect the engine to idle without fuel? It is very difficult to accuratly diagnose the fuel system without an injector tester and a fuel pressure gauge. The best advice is to clean everything up as good as you can, fix all leaks, see that all of the injectors have a decent pattern and flow equally. Change the fuel filter and then see how well the motor runs. Make sure you have flushed all of the kerosene out of the system before trying to start the motor. This is a continuous injector system ie: it always flows fuel to all injecters, it doesn't know when each cylinder fires. Be very careful that you have NO fuel leaks under pressure, it can become very dangerous if in fact there is even a minor one. David Teitelbaum vin 10757 -- In dmcnews@xxxx, jugeauj@xxxx wrote: > > Hi All, > > Not having played with this type of injection system before I'm not sure > of what I'm looking at concerning how the fuel injectors are supposed to > work. > > I've finally gotten around to hooking the fuel lines back up on #4337. > Long story short, from what I can deduce and from what I've been told from > previous owners (#2 and #3, I'm #4), the car sat around with water > throughout its fuel lines for the better part of ten years. > Suffice it to say a lot of parts have been replaced. > > Using kerosene (less explosive fumes to contend with), I unhooked the > fuel pump and wired a 12V battery across it (happen to be more convenient > at the time than bypassing via the fuse box, etc.) and watched for what > kind of crud came through. > > Then came the check for leaks around the distributor, etc. > Mostly out of curiosity, I pulled two injectors out and ran the pump again. > Both injectors emitted a thin stream (not a spray) of fluid. > Just to test the injectors themselves I went ahead and pressed down on the > airflow sensor and got a nice spray pattern (yeah, I know the catalytic is > probably going to love me for that). > I was lead to believe that with the airflow sensor completely closed (as in > the case with the engine not running) no fuel should make it's way to the > injectors. Is this true? > Is the distributor supposed to allow raw fuel into the intake or is there a > problem stemming from either of the following: > 1) Central fuel plunger valve (sorry, don't know the correct name for it) > in the fuel distributor is bad? > 2) The 12V battery I used couldn't work the pump up to around 65psi thereby > not charging the system with enough fuel pressure for the plunger and other > associated components to function properly? > 3) Fuel filter was significantly plugged up to restrict fuel flow thereby > yielding the same problem(s) as in #2)? > > I apologize if this turns out to be a relatively basic question. > I only get to work on the car on weekends and didn't give myself enough > time to experiment on my own (getting fuel pressure readings, etc). > I figured I'd ask the group during the week to fuel myself with more > information to work with this coming weekend. > > Thanks a lot, > > Louis