No start problems

[SteveBrunz]

Thanks in advance for the help. So a month ago I put a hole in my front heat exchanger. Got that all repaired after lots of work.

I refilled and bled the coolant, but I've having issues when it starts now. On a cold start it turns over and warms up fine, I even moved it from the garage to the yard to wash and wax it, but when I went to to start again it just turns over, it sounds like it wants to fire but it doesn't. Is it possible I have another air lock in the coolant or maybe I fouled the spark plugs from the initial incident (I drove a bit before I realized I lost all my coolant)

Any ideas?

 

[maim]

i would try the plugs 1st as they might be fouled from the sound of it.

 

[SteveBrunz]

i would try the plugs 1st as they might be fouled from the sound of it.

Okay I'll give that a shot tomorrow going to do oil anyways, here's hoping.

 

[trailanimal]

Hi SteveBrunz, sounds very much like the problem I had when I tried my first start this Fall, I checked that I had spark first, then to see if I had fuel coming from my pump and there was not, when I turned the key it made all the right noises of the fuel pump and the engine turned over but no fuel came out of the pump. I had the seat off and a line on the pump to a bucket to watch. Put a new pump in and all my start problems disappeared.

 

[03RX1-ER-LE]

Thanks in advance for the help. So a month ago I put a hole in my front heat exchanger. Got that all repaired after lots of work.

I refilled and bled the coolant, but I've having issues when it starts now. On a cold start it turns over and warms up fine, I even moved it from the garage to the yard to wash and wax it, but when I went to to start again it just turns over, it sounds like it wants to fire but it doesn't. Is it possible I have another air lock in the coolant or maybe I fouled the spark plugs from the initial incident (I drove a bit before I realized I lost all my coolant)

Any ideas?

Did you let it run until warmup light went off before shutting off? If this is not done you will fowl the plugs, that is not a hard to do job however after doing this once, you will remember to let the warmup light go off before shutting off or even blipping the throttle.

 

[SteveBrunz]

Yeah I usually always let it warm up before jumping, in but maybe when it first got damaged I didn't. I'm hoping it's just a spark plug issue I just had the whole thing gutted to fix the heat exchanger, which I never want to do again.

I'll update in a couple days

 

[SteveBrunz]

Got it all out back together today, looks like it was the spark plugs, quite a bit of electrode was gone.

Thanks everyone in here who helped out with this problem and my heat exchanger problem last month. This is an awesome forum. Now I just need a late March blizzard.

Thanks again!

 

[justin gallant]

Did the same thing with mine when I first bought my apex. Start and stop with out going for a rip showing it off tho my buddy's and it fouled the plugs and would not start at all. Once I replaced the plugs she started fine. I don't think these plugs like to be soaked with unburnt fuel