dcioccarelli
Dominic Cioccarelli
My car has had some trouble starting over the last few weeks. Initially I put it down to the cold weather but this week has been relatively warm and the problem persisted.
Yesterday I disconnected the power to the fuel pump and let the car die from fuel starvation (in order to remove all fuel from the fuel lines). When I started the car today it fired up first go.
I would imagine that this would indicate that the issue is indeed a leaking injector. What confuses me is that even if I had such an issue, sometimes I leave the car for a week before starting it. Over such a period, even with a leaking injector, surely any residual fuel in the lines that leaked through an injector would have vaporised?
In any case, I intend to fit a switch which allows me to deactivate the fuel pump from inside the cabin and let the car run down through fuel starvation whenever I leave it for a prolonged period. Obviously I need to identify the faulty injector eventually, but can anyone see any inherent issue with the proposed "work around"?
Cheers,
Dom.
Yesterday I disconnected the power to the fuel pump and let the car die from fuel starvation (in order to remove all fuel from the fuel lines). When I started the car today it fired up first go.
I would imagine that this would indicate that the issue is indeed a leaking injector. What confuses me is that even if I had such an issue, sometimes I leave the car for a week before starting it. Over such a period, even with a leaking injector, surely any residual fuel in the lines that leaked through an injector would have vaporised?
In any case, I intend to fit a switch which allows me to deactivate the fuel pump from inside the cabin and let the car run down through fuel starvation whenever I leave it for a prolonged period. Obviously I need to identify the faulty injector eventually, but can anyone see any inherent issue with the proposed "work around"?
Cheers,
Dom.
