Engine Flooded... ??'s (not beating a dead horse)
11-30-2006, 06:03 PM
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Originally Posted by rotarygod
Waiting for a rotary to "unflood" will not work. You can wait as long as you want. It won't help. You have to get the fuel out of the engine and get enough of a spark to ignite what is being sprayed into it. Pull starting it accomplishes this every single time without fail. I've started blown motors this way!
If you want your car to start after flooding do the following.
Take out the spark plugs, all 4. With them out, get inside the car and keep cranking until you have a lot of the fuel out of the rotor housings. Crank for 20 seconds, stop for 10, crank for another 20. Put the plugs in and will start right up. If it doesn't, repeat the process one more time but before you do KEEP ON CRANKIN!!!!!! It will start. Make sure to clean the spark plugs with carb or brake cleaner if its available. I've helped my friend unflood his RX8 in a parking lot during a blizzard. Luckily he had a socket wrench set in his trunk.
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11-30-2006, 09:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Bart!
Push starting a flooded rotary starts the car? Or ignites the spark plugs? Negative. It doesn't always start a flooded motor if that's what your referring too.
If you want your car to start after flooding do the following.
Take out the spark plugs, all 4. With them out, get inside the car and keep cranking until you have a lot of the fuel out of the rotor housings. Crank for 20 seconds, stop for 10, crank for another 20. Put the plugs in and will start right up. If it doesn't, repeat the process one more time but before you do KEEP ON CRANKIN!!!!!! It will start. Make sure to clean the spark plugs with carb or brake cleaner if its available. I've helped my friend unflood his RX8 in a parking lot during a blizzard. Luckily he had a socket wrench set in his trunk.
If you want your car to start after flooding do the following.
Take out the spark plugs, all 4. With them out, get inside the car and keep cranking until you have a lot of the fuel out of the rotor housings. Crank for 20 seconds, stop for 10, crank for another 20. Put the plugs in and will start right up. If it doesn't, repeat the process one more time but before you do KEEP ON CRANKIN!!!!!! It will start. Make sure to clean the spark plugs with carb or brake cleaner if its available. I've helped my friend unflood his RX8 in a parking lot during a blizzard. Luckily he had a socket wrench set in his trunk.
11-30-2006, 10:11 PM
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Originally Posted by caskstrength
true. Push starting wont always start the 8. It may have worked on FC's, but I think the renesis is more difficult. But if you have the new battery and starter, I dont see why anyone would need to take oput the plugs. That battery lasts forever and the starteris strong. Just keep cranking that baby and pumpin the gas pedal. Most should start after a good 15 minutes. Many people give up b/c they are not familiar with this process.
04-13-2007, 10:43 PM
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LOL it's nice to see that people are learning around here. I've been doing the push starting thing since 1991 for my flooded rotaries, and it's worked every time. If people would replace their plugs more often and keep the excessive carbon build-up out of their engines, flooding would be a non-issue.
04-13-2007, 10:50 PM
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Originally Posted by rotarygod
Keep it in second gear.
Curious why do you use 2nd gear? I've always done it in 1st without any prolonged pushing. You trying to keep the rpms low? I usually have someone in another vehicle push me from behind with some protection on the bumper. I let off the clutch at 5mph as the pushing vehicle accelerates. Then I give it some gas. My engine is un-floodded when I start to accelerate way.
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