Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:54:26 -0800
Reply-To: David Kao <dtkao0205@YAHOO.COM>
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From: David Kao <dtkao0205@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: Was: Leaky ... fuel injector? Now: suck fuel/air through
vaccum side of fuel regulator?
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Neil:
WBX engines in my opinion are very tough. I used to think of getting
rid of my 84 due to it getting old and sitting there too long not being
used. I got it registered again and gave it some tune up and fuel.
It did not disappoint me.
My suggestion is to think more positively. It can be a perfect engine
still. Drain it. Put fresh oil in it. Remove the fuel lines and injectors
from the top of the engine and check them out. Disconnect the power to
the fuel pump. Disconnect ECU and ignition wiring and spark plugs.
Then crank the engine and see how it spins. Make sure battery is fully
charged and give it a compression check. If you get 120 PSI for all 4
cylinders the engine can climb the 10,000 ft summit on Tioga Pass in
Yosemite at 3rd gear. It will run up to 80 MPH if you push it on flat
freeway. That's what my 84 did in the summer this year. Even if one or
two cylinders get low compression at 100 PSI it can be easily rebuilt still.
This list has plenty of helping hands. Good luck and don't send it to
recycle.
David
--- neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> Last night I was picturing in my mind just how horrid it could be with
> all that fluid in there and the PO trying to start it. Yikes! Yah who
> knows what happened in there. Thanks for the heads up though.
>
> With any luck nothing got bent or suffered from too much friction. If
> it runs it runs. Someone gets a deal. If not, I'm parting it out then
> it's scrap metal time for the engine block/heads.
>
> Unless a rebuilder will give me core $$ even though I'm not buying an
> engine from him. Ehhhh.... not likely!
>
> Neil.
>
> On 11/12/07, Allan Streib <streib@cs.indiana.edu> wrote:
> > David Kao <dtkao0205@YAHOO.COM> writes:
> >
> > > There is a possibility that it is still a good engine despite that
> > > it is full of gasoline in it. I think one of the injectors has its
> > > core shot out and the engine has become a deep pit for receiving
> > > constant flow of gas as soon as the fuel pump begins pumping. Save
> > > the engine. Whatever the problem it may be it is not one in the
> > > engine.
> >
> > If it hydrolocked with a liquid in the cylinder, you could have a bent
> > rod.
> >
> > Allan
> >
>
>
> --
> Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia -
> "Jaco" (Bustorius)
>
> http://web.mac.com/tubaneil
>
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