Silver Dollar

[mrhino]

Called the wife and kids out to the garage, for this glorious moment. when I tried to start the engine for the first time, it wouldn't start or run. after a few minutes of me cranking, and some cussing. They must of got the feeling that the show was over. cause they all just slowly went back inside. (iv seen this before.) So now Im thinking to myself and resiting the 3 basics all engines need. First I checked ignition, with my timming light. every cylinder was firing. Next, shot some starting fluid down the throttle body, and it would start and run till the starting fluid burnt up. I Then put my fuel pressure gauge to it. it had pressure to the rail. Ok! What the hell is going on here. I posted the question on the forum got so good suggestions, and asked my PCM programmer, Brenden at LT1swap, He suggested I check the injectors, they might be cloged or "stuck" from sitting.
So I took out the injectors and put one in the vice Poured cleaner into the top of the injector. Made a simple wire harness, one side went to the power on the battery charger. The other I dragged across the negitive clamp on my charger. this resulted in the injector pulsing open and closed very fast instead of just staying opening.



At first I dint hear the injector pulsing at all but after a few minutes i started to get some nasty stuff out of it.



I went ahead and did this to all the injectors, then soaked them over night in cleaner. The next day, i had to run to the parts store for new injector orings. The cleaner had swelled them. should have taken them off but was sidetracked. After the orings were in I put the injectors back in the rail. i have a OTC injector cleaner, that will pressureize the rail to bypass the fuel pump for cleaning purposes.



So I hooked that up and used the same trick as I did on the bench and fired one injector at a time, this time with 55 psi behide them.



Sprayed cleaner through the injector into a little catch can a.k.a. wifes storage container (she let me keep that one). did that to all injectors till it looked like i had a good spray pattern.



Put all the injectors back in and fired the engine. she started and ran. it was a little loud with no exhaust but it was great just to her in run.