Stang49

Today I killed my car backing out of a parking spot. Thing is I couldn't get it started again. I cranked the car off and on for 5 mins but it wouldn't fire. It would try to catch and just die. I waited 5 mins and tried again and it finally started. This happens every time I kill it! Other than when I kill it, it starts great and runs great.

An ideas? Is it flooded? Does this happen to anyone else? I'm really kinda worried about killing it pulling into traffic.

scapegoat

sounds like you're flooding the cylinder with fuel.

pdub42

mine did something like this once, it was very cold and clutch was very stiff i went to pull out was thinking i was in my other car gave it too much clutch and it idled down to like a couple hundred rpms and i hit the clutch and it turned over a few more times like it didnt want to die but then it died and i started it back up and it was like barely running engine was turning crazy slow gas wouldnt even make it idle up more then after like 20 seconds it went back up to normal idle and i drove away. I think it was flooded took a few seconds to burn the gas out then it was fine.

nemosgt

Are you touching the throttle at all during the attempted restart?
Years ago you had to push the throttle to the floor to set the choke. Now days the computor does everything, so make sure your foot is off the throttle before and during the restart attempt. You probably know this, but just in case.

Cheers.

Stang49

Thanks for the replys. Yea I kept my foot off thinking I would flood it. I'm guessing it either has too much gas (flooded) or not enough gas. I wonder if there is a reason it would not start only right after killing it. I didn't give it much gas backing up... probably why I killed it. I know it didn't do this when I first bought it 9 months ago. I could barley drive stick back then and killed it frequently. I do have a bamachips 91 tune and JLT intake but I couldn't see that causing this.

FreshPuck

I'm sure you checked/this probably isnt the case, but did you check your intakes connection to the throttle body??

Stang49

It actually happened a day after I put on my JLT intake however I pretty certain everything is very tight. Plus it was doing this before I swapped intakes.

hawkeye18

This may not apply to these newfangled devices they got controlling cars nowadays, but on Ford EECs of not too long ago, pushing the throttle all the way down to the floor would signal the computer to cut out the fuel injectors completely while cranking. This was EEC-IV, so as I said not too long ago; there is a chance that Ford still does this.

Of course, the easy way to tell would be to push the throttle down to the floor when trying to start without a suspected flood; if it starts, it didn't work, and if it won't start (and then does when you don't floor the throttle) that means it does do it. Something to check out, anyway.