BrianGuy1979
Well-known member
Okay, so here's the deal. Back in the day when I was younger I wanted this car to be fast, so I put some different nozzles in it. It was a long time ago and I have no idea what size I upgraded too. Later on in life I wanted even more and when my computer bit the dust, I bought one from the dealer, shipped it to some guy in Chicago had it flashed and he shipped it back. I gave the computer to the dealer who programmed it to my car and I was up and running and even faster. I didn't care for the insane amount of smoke, and the 10MPG loss in fuel economy, but it sure was fun to drive! Well, now I am 31 and I want it back to the new days. No more smoke, 52mpg and a SMOOTH idle. After all of this, the car always idled terrible. So yesterday I took the injectors out and swapped them back to the stock nozzles. Reinstalled them. A mechanic friend of mine told me to disconnect each injectors return line and crank on it to remove the air that would have gotten in the line and crank on it until is starts to sputter to life. Then he said to stop as it starts to run or I'll have diesel all over. After that you can put the lines back on and then restart it. I did this just as he said. The motor idled rough for maybe 20 seconds and then it was beautiful....Idled SMOOTH again! It hasn't been this smooth in 7 years! I was so excited. I took it out for a drive and immediately realized something was terribly wrong. The car had NO balls. Not even 90hp stock balls. It was all I could do to get it to 40 MPH. I had to baby the throttle when I was driving it. If you layed on it, it would bog down and a bright blue smoke would come out the exhaust. I come back home to think about what could be wrong. I realize that even though I didn't do the nozzle and computer upgrade at the same time (computer came later) maybe the non-stock programing won't allow the stock injectors to be in place. So I decide to switch them back. I needed the car for a 600 mile drive later in the day so I had to have it running. I took them all out and reinstalled the performance nozzles. Put it all back together. Did the air bleed trick. Then got back in it to start it. Started about 15-20 times but would immediately die after it started. I thought maybe there was more air, so I opened up the top of the injectors and cranked. I watched as diesel came shooting out of every fuel line as it should. But STILL, it won't stay running. Now it won't even start at all. Crank, crank and crank. I decide to replace them again back to stock nozzles, so I pull them out and switch back, install new brass "O" rings and tighten it all back down again, do the air bleed trick for a while with no sense that it wanted to start....sealed it up and cranked on it again for a while. NOTHING. Something is way out of whack and I am out of ideas. Now I have a car that NO ONE around my area has any clue how to work on and a wife that was pissed when we had to drive the mini-van at 17 MPG. A $55 trip with the Dub cost us $126. She was NOT happy with me to say the least. HELP! What am I missing here?