Amphibious EJ20 - Self nominated fail

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 HKSREX said:

Not worries mate. I like that you went to the trouble to even share with us your experince and left a few vids that we can look at aswell. It was all for fun at the end of the day. Some guys on here to worried if it has bent rods and shiit like that... WTF. Think there all to old and have something stuck up their arses.. when your not even worried about that nor am i. anyway cheers for sharing man.

(before anyway has a go at me. go for it I dont care nor will i reply to you so after you finish abusing me dont forget to go F****self and have a nice day)

Cheers bro

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 Decimate said:

....... mistakes can happen so hopefully I, and others, can learn from it.

Yeah cheers bro.... Hopefully they can.

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I don\'t know what the deal is now - started it with the exhaust on (bolted fingertight) this morning, sounded OK but a bit shaky at idle. Could smell heaps of fuel which concerned me. Keep it idling for a few minutes and could see fuel or a fuel mix coming out the exhaust gaskets by the turbo. Maybe it\'s only running on three and pouring all the unburnt fuel out. The other option is it\'s something to do with the fuel pressure reg running either way to high or way to low, I have no idea what PSI it should be set at.

[Koom]

43.5psi at idle with the vacuum hose disconnected.

Prob only running on 3 if it\'s shaky. Check the spark plugs.

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 Koom said:

43.5psi at idle with the vacuum hose disconnected.

Prob only running on 3 if it\'s shaky. Check the spark plugs.

Cool thanks, I think it was at 30-ish with vac disconnected. I\'ve checked 2 x front spark plugs, the rear ones look like they\'re a bit more effort...lol

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Well pulled all the sparks, found the problem with cyl #2, pulled the plug out and it was drenched in fuel. Changed it, re-started, same problem exists, fuck it, new engine time.

/thread.

[rex-leggy]

did you try another coil?

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 rex-leggy said:

did you try another coil?

Can\'t be fucked man, I\'ve got a couple of spare coils there but it would be some co-incidence to have stuffed the coil between first start after drenching engine and now?

[rex-leggy]

 Decimate']

[quote name='rex-leggy said:

did you try another coil?

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Can\'t be bothered man, I\'ve got a couple of spare coils there but it would be some co-incidence to have stuffed the coil between first start after drenching engine and now?

trust me there\'s plenty of co-incidences when it comes to subies

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 rex-leggy']

[quote name='rex-leggy said:

did you try another coil?

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Can\'t be bothered man, I\'ve got a couple of spare coils there but it would be some co-incidence to have stuffed the coil between first start after drenching engine and now?

trust me there\'s plenty of co-incidences when it comes to subies

I agree. The older coils are mud and they do crap out often. Happened a few tes on my rs. Mind you replacing with second hand ones they only gonna last so long

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Am I the only one that thinks your motor is knocking in the last two vids?

[Kiwi_Fozze]

It does sound a bit... Unusually noisy...

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Yeah I\'m thinking the poor girl is in a fairly sorry state! I\'m going to do a compression test before I buy new sparks or coils as the less money expended if it\'s shot to pieces the better I think. But then again it could be unusually noisy because it\'s running an open exhaust/thumbtight exhaust

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Did a compression test today, started on cyl #2 (passenger-front), was 135 which is slightly out of spec (141-175) but that was the cylinder which has been gushing fuel so I was expecting something badly wrong. Tried cyl #1 (passenger-rear) and that went up to 150 then steadily dropped. Father in law turned up (hes been a mechanic for 40 years) and thought that the tester was prob faulty as it should hold pressure regardless of whats happening in the cylinder so im going to retest that one. He also commented on the fuel coming out of cyl #2 - apparently somethings seriously wrong there! Might be fuel pressure regular, or injector stuck open or something - im hoping for an easy fix!