Intermediate No Start!

[Danton84]

I have an '89 LXI and sometimes I will crank it over and it won't start. HOwever, if I put the gas pedle to the floor it will start.

I think has have two leaky injectors; could this be part of the problem?

[BITESIZE]

Straight up that could be your problem, plus plugs, wires, coil, fuel pump, fuel filters.....

Also throw some fuel injector clean in the gas tank.

[HaccordR89]

when you put the gas peddle to the floor it doesn't pump any gas to the motor when your starting it. sounds like the problem to me

[88LXi/87CRXSi]

If the "sometimes" when this happens is when the engine is fully warmed up, and you turn it off and then try to start it, like 5 minutes later, then your ECT sensor is bad. :beat:

[Danton84]

The car starts when I put the pedle to the floor(clear flood mode) so how could that be the problem?.

Do you think the leaky injectors could be flooding my engine?

[HaccordR89]

i've never heard of that and i have leaky injectors so i doubt it...it's definitly something with the fuel, but i would rule out injectors.

[88LXi/87CRXSi]

If the starting problems happen like I stated, the reason I mentioned the ECT sensor, is that a bad sensor will cause the ECU to think it's trying to start a "cold" engine, even shen it's fully warmed up. When the ECM "sees" a start signal and a cold signal at the same time it increases the injector PW from the normal running width of 2-3ms to as high as 100ms. A hot engine typically can not handle this much fuel, and the engine floods.
Now if you have to hold the pedal down even with a cold engine to get it to start, then yes, it's possible that your injectors are leaking. If so, have you tried a fuel injector cleaner?

[Danton84]

Yeah I probably need to run some fuel cleaner as the car had been sitting for quite some time. Has anyone used SeaFoam?