ksmoker
Veteran Member
I just bought a golf to use as a donor. It had symptoms of what I assume is a bad injector...
When I first started it, it had a dead miss, and whitish smoke out the tail pipe. I figured an injector was worn to the point where it was just dumping fuel non-stop.
I shut it off and talked with the seller for a few minutes. When he went to restart it so I could take a test drive, it turned over once and stopped, like it was hydrolocked... then he tried it again, and it fired up. On my test drive, after the car warmed up a bit, it seemed to smooth out somewhat.
My question is, how likely is it that that rod is bent? I'm hoping I can just replace injectors and go, but if there's a good chance that I need to replace a rod or four, I might as well do it now, while the engine is out.
When I first started it, it had a dead miss, and whitish smoke out the tail pipe. I figured an injector was worn to the point where it was just dumping fuel non-stop.
I shut it off and talked with the seller for a few minutes. When he went to restart it so I could take a test drive, it turned over once and stopped, like it was hydrolocked... then he tried it again, and it fired up. On my test drive, after the car warmed up a bit, it seemed to smooth out somewhat.
My question is, how likely is it that that rod is bent? I'm hoping I can just replace injectors and go, but if there's a good chance that I need to replace a rod or four, I might as well do it now, while the engine is out.