Post by ylekyote on Mar 6, 2016 22:46:30 GMT -5
Another Sunday evening spent banging my head why my beloved mountain won’t dang start. Lol.
I have crank but no start.
I had the tapping leaking down hydraulic lifter devices that started tapping about two weeks ago. I could run through the bleed/clean-out procedures 8 times (rev to 3,000 RPM for 15 seconds and repeat) and it would entirely disappear, just to be back the next day. Did it 3 times and same results. I was getting used to the noise and then this happened.
Three mornings ago I went to drive and had crank but no start. I have fuel because I can smell it flooding the motor, and I think I hear the fuel pump coming on, and I also sprayed propane and starter fluid into large butterfly at intake and it would not start either, on two test occasions.
I have spark at least at the spark coil that feeds out of the driver-side most front coil. I removed the front wire and inserted spark tester in the front-most wire hole.
The engine temperature sensors are reading normally. No other codes of any kind. Fuses under the hood are good.
History: 165,000 miles. 18 months ago I replaced the timing belt, tensioner, idler and water pump. And I removed the intake butterflies that have ruined so many of these motors when the flaps and screws come slinging free at 80mph. It ran fine until the lifter tapping and then this new no-start problem.
Anyone one else chased this same thing down I hope? What should I do next? Should I check timing to be sure it’s still on? Could a tensioner or whatever caused it to skip a rung or two and do this overnight? Wondering if I possibly have flooded it at this point so I don’t have required compression, adding to the original problem. I’ve cranked on it for a good 10-12 minutes combined over the last 3 days.
I have crank but no start.
I had the tapping leaking down hydraulic lifter devices that started tapping about two weeks ago. I could run through the bleed/clean-out procedures 8 times (rev to 3,000 RPM for 15 seconds and repeat) and it would entirely disappear, just to be back the next day. Did it 3 times and same results. I was getting used to the noise and then this happened.
Three mornings ago I went to drive and had crank but no start. I have fuel because I can smell it flooding the motor, and I think I hear the fuel pump coming on, and I also sprayed propane and starter fluid into large butterfly at intake and it would not start either, on two test occasions.
I have spark at least at the spark coil that feeds out of the driver-side most front coil. I removed the front wire and inserted spark tester in the front-most wire hole.
The engine temperature sensors are reading normally. No other codes of any kind. Fuses under the hood are good.
History: 165,000 miles. 18 months ago I replaced the timing belt, tensioner, idler and water pump. And I removed the intake butterflies that have ruined so many of these motors when the flaps and screws come slinging free at 80mph. It ran fine until the lifter tapping and then this new no-start problem.
Anyone one else chased this same thing down I hope? What should I do next? Should I check timing to be sure it’s still on? Could a tensioner or whatever caused it to skip a rung or two and do this overnight? Wondering if I possibly have flooded it at this point so I don’t have required compression, adding to the original problem. I’ve cranked on it for a good 10-12 minutes combined over the last 3 days.