KillNThrill24
Legend
Well as some or most may know my dang GT was having major issues. What I, and many many others THOUGHT was a fuel related issue... And then today I jacked up my Grand Am to fix a leaking fuel line, and while unsnapping the clip that holds in the 2 brake lines and 3, yes 3, fuel lines.. Obviously the rusted out brake line couldn't take it anymore and popped a nice sized hole in it. I knew right then and there it was DONE for a minute because I have to track the brake line to the next fitting location which us up towards the front of the car, and the leak is far in the back. Tried to move it to get the Mustang out after putting it all back together and brake pedal went to the floor and I had to rip the e-brake to stop it. Getting it into the garage was rather fun stopping with nothing but the e-brake..
Then we decided at about 12:30am we were gonna pull the coils tonight and do the spark plugs tomorrow since it would be easier to try to fix the Mustang's issue than the Grand Am. Well we disassembled the intake, plenum, and fuel rails, pulled the coils and grabbed a mini led flashlight (Autozone had em on sale 2 for $5 good deal!) What we saw in there gave us the exact answer we needed as to why it was running like such shit. Filling 4, out of the EIGHT plug chambers was water! Apparently when my buddy hosed off my engine water slid it's way under the COP's and into those chambers! Meaning the car was running at half power. Which explaind a lot because I couldn't even get on the highway at a decent speed, a damned prius could have outrun me lmao!
So we used a vacuum with a funnel mod (cut a funnel up and taped it to the end of the vacuum to get down in the chamber) and sucked most of it out, and blew the rest out, and all over the engine bay haha. While I did that my buddy took my COP's apart and cleaned them all up and die-electric'd all of them and we reinstalled everything. Rolled it out of the garage and into the street and fired it up. And boy were we relieved to see she got her balls back! Took her out for a spin and spun through first and second. Thank gosh it was something simple as that.
Just thought I'd share this with all my bud's because I'm so happy to be back in it after 2 looong months without it!
O and this is what it looked like in his garage LOL
Yeah boyee runnin grill-less with not Mach delete lol!
Then we decided at about 12:30am we were gonna pull the coils tonight and do the spark plugs tomorrow since it would be easier to try to fix the Mustang's issue than the Grand Am. Well we disassembled the intake, plenum, and fuel rails, pulled the coils and grabbed a mini led flashlight (Autozone had em on sale 2 for $5 good deal!) What we saw in there gave us the exact answer we needed as to why it was running like such shit. Filling 4, out of the EIGHT plug chambers was water! Apparently when my buddy hosed off my engine water slid it's way under the COP's and into those chambers! Meaning the car was running at half power. Which explaind a lot because I couldn't even get on the highway at a decent speed, a damned prius could have outrun me lmao!
So we used a vacuum with a funnel mod (cut a funnel up and taped it to the end of the vacuum to get down in the chamber) and sucked most of it out, and blew the rest out, and all over the engine bay haha. While I did that my buddy took my COP's apart and cleaned them all up and die-electric'd all of them and we reinstalled everything. Rolled it out of the garage and into the street and fired it up. And boy were we relieved to see she got her balls back! Took her out for a spin and spun through first and second. Thank gosh it was something simple as that.
Just thought I'd share this with all my bud's because I'm so happy to be back in it after 2 looong months without it!
O and this is what it looked like in his garage LOL
Yeah boyee runnin grill-less with not Mach delete lol!
