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Toyota Sienna starting problem
The other day after the car sat for a week, I started it to back it out
of the garage. I then restarted it 2 hours later and pulled it back in. The next morning, the car just would not start, just cranked and cranked. I finally got it started later in the day after about a minute of cranking, and then there was an awful fuel smell coming out of the exhaust. After that it was fine. Now this seems like some sort of flooding occurred, but I thought that is not possible with a fuel injected car. Can somone clarify what I experienced. |
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That's interesting about the plugs. They are the original plugs. Car is a 1998 model with 62000 miles, but I believe it has platinum plugs. Maybe they need replacing anyway. Comboverfish wrote: > wrote: > > The other day after the car sat for a week, I started it to back it > out > > of the garage. I then restarted it 2 hours later and pulled it back > > in. The next morning, the car just would not start, just cranked and > > cranked. I finally got it started later in the day after about a > > minute of cranking, and then there was an awful fuel smell coming out > > of the exhaust. After that it was fine. > > > > Now this seems like some sort of flooding occurred, but I thought > that > > is not possible with a fuel injected car. Can somone clarify what I > > experienced. > > >From experience, I would suspect you have incorrect spark plugs > installed or have never changed the original plugs that are way past > due. This usually causes occasional difficult starting on an otherwise > healthy engine. > > If you experience this again you can force the computer to stop > injecting gas during cranking if you push the gas pedal ALL the way to > the floor. It will recognise 100% throttle during cranking and engage > "Clear Flood Mode". This is assuming you have a legitimate flooding > condition brought on by POOR SPARK, low compression, timing problems > etc. > > The likelyhood that anything is wrong with your fuel delivery system > that would cause excess fuel dumping is almost nil. Toyota's SFI > systems don't fail in that regard (actually they rarely fail in any > way). > > Toyota MDT in MO |
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