Gasoline coming out of tail pipe in a 93

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SlartiBartfast - 13 May 2005 22:48 GMT

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

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John Riggs - 13 May 2005 23:48 GMT

It's fuel injected. Keep your foot off the gas when you start. It does
nothing but help you flood the engine. Just get in and turn the key.

|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

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SlartiBartfast - 14 May 2005 01:03 GMT

Funny that is what I thought....the AAA guy that came to tow me
insisited that I floor it to get it started....not that it helped.

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Ulysses - 14 May 2005 21:35 GMT

> 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?

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Ashton Crusher - 14 May 2005 23:40 GMT

>> 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
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>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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Ulysses - 15 May 2005 19:23 GMT

> >> 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
[quoted text clipped - 13 lines]
> to the floor" condition as "engine flooded" and it will cut the
> injection volume way down to allow you to start a flooded engine.

I learn something new every day on this NG.

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R&B - 16 May 2005 00:43 GMT

I believe it's a deeper issue than the position of the gas pedal. All
engines with fuel injection have mixture enrichining devices that operate
when the engine is cold. It is possible this is defective and emitting too
much fuel..
Ron

>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

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