On Sat, 14 May 2005 13:35:34 -0700, "Ulysses"
> wrote:

>
>"SlartiBartfast" > wrote in message
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>> I fired up my 93 Explorer this morning (Friday the 13th) and it would
>> not start, I smelled gas, so thought that I had flooded it....started
>> it with the pedal floored, and it ran really roughly and would die
>> after letting off the gas. Smelled gas and saw blue smoke, look under
>> the exhaust pipe and it had blown out a ton of gasoline. Any Ideas?
>> Thanks in Advance
>
>You started it in the FIRST place (first try) with the pedal all the way
>down, or only after it wouldn't start? It used to be that with carburated
>engines if it was flooded you cranked it with the throttle wide open to try
>to clear the cylinder. So the AAA guy said to do it with a fuel injected
>engine?
>>
>

And the AAA guy was correct. The computer programming on virtually
all modern FI cars is set to recognize a "engine not running, pedal
to the floor" condition as "engine flooded" and it will cut the
injection volume way down to allow you to start a flooded engine.
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