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["cruznmd" <racuti1@xxxx>]

I want to thank everyone for all the encouraging words and good 
advice. Quite a few people have posted, telling me not to give up.

So I won't.

I have a book that deals with the K-Jetronic fuel system and the 
common thread I keep stumbling on is a screwed up fuel distributor. 
Specifically, the control plunger. Which mine has the wrong O-rings 
on it/in it. The Primary Pressure Regulator in it was also rusted 
shut and may not be operating correctly even now. All of that info I 
already put in another post (amatuer mechanics).

Now that I've re-read the chapter on fuel, and observed what my car 
is doing, it's a wonder it ever ran at all. The injectors 
don't "buzz". They "weep" more than they spray, and they don't 
respond to the air sensor plate movement. They also continue to weep 
long after the fuel pump is off, which is also wrong. The book says 
this is all plunger related. My air sensor plate also sticks, it 
doesn't "bounce" like it should. 

If you combine a defective fuel distrib with dirty injectors, a weak 
starter, imperfect timing, -and- a CO mixture screw that's chewed up 
and out of adjustment it's not going to start. Plus I probably have a 
vacuum leak somewhere. I've been told time and again, the fuel system 
is just too precise to "get by" with out of calibration parts.

I didn't want to quit because I was tired of working on it, I wanted 
to quit because I couldn't understand what's happening. Now I have 
knowledge, and a plan so I'm back in the game.

If anyone knows how I can get a new CO adjustment screw/venturi on 
the cheap, email me offline.

Rich
#5335