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914 Hemophiliac ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 720 Joined: 6-April 10 From: Bear, Delaware Member No.: 11,566 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region ![]() |
Why am I so completely luckless with this car?
I am all kinds of screwed up now. I am pretty sure I am on 3 cylinders. Took the car for a ride before a long trip in the Infiniti on Friday. As I pulled into the garage, it started missing. Talk about strange. 3 feet from the garage? No lie, it did get me home. I shut it off and figured that I should order new wires. I did and all I could find for myself was the new Beru's from Pelican, who I really do think are a great local resource in SoCal. Got them in the mail while I was away. They are not the same as Bosch, but I did succeed in putting the old tips back on the plugs. I installed new Beru wires and started the car. Can't complain about this thing starting, but I think I now have a bad injector. (I did have a bad rusty tank but none of it reached even the fuel pump. I would be really surprised by junk reaching the injectors, but maybe I still have enough skill and gumption to test or at least inspect them?) Can someone prevent me from death by 1,000 cuts by a 914? 1. Are the injectors easily removable and how hard is it to test them? 2. Is there any reliable source for used 2.0L green ones? 3. Is there anything less than a rapist price on new green ones? 4. Am I barking up the wrong tree? The car starts without any trouble, and for a second seems to run on all 4, but immediately goes to 3 cylinders. There is a NOS set of trigger points in the dizzy. I do have the old trigger points, and they were just as nice as the ones I put in. Can I test the injectors with just me, or is it just too dangerous in a small garage? I am totally embarrassed, but with a few hours now passed, I at least have sublimated my pride and come hat in hand for help to the only crew I know that may save me from tears and sadness that I should never have tried and failed to do some things so completely miserably by myself. I am in a bad way, with this car staring at me like I am a total jerkoff for thinking I could get it in better shape. If this is too risky, I will have to spend big bucks towing the car, but as of yet, I have no local to Yorba Linda 914 tuner. Seems like they are all far away from my location on the 91 at about the Toll Road. Runs too rough to drive it at this point. HELP! Thanks! John avidfanjpl - Embarrassed nearly to death..................... |
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