"Ashton Crusher" > wrote in message
...
> On Sat, 14 May 2005 13:35:34 -0700, "Ulysses"
> > wrote:
>
> >
> >"SlartiBartfast" > wrote in message
> roups.com...
> >> 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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