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Old 27 January 2019 | 12:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Gambit
If it's running the std ecu (even when mapped). Then just put throttle to the floor and then crank. It won't start as it cuts the fuel. All hawk onwardsdo this.

edit: it was the late JGM who told me about this. First time doing it I was still a bit nervous but works 100%.


It amazes me so many people don’t know this...many 1990’s engines with electronic fuel injection did this to clear a flooded engine. Subarus are no different, even some modern cars do it.

It’s also in the owner manual under the section “starting a flooded engine”
Old 27 January 2019 | 01:37 AM
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Can you get a screw driver in to lift the tab and pry it off the sensor?
Old 27 January 2019 | 01:49 AM
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Originally Posted by bugeyestuart
Can you get a screw driver in to lift the tab and pry it off the sensor?
i didnt try to be honest and looking at the tab it would suggest that it was a push-down to release tab not a lift up one
Old 27 January 2019 | 11:22 AM
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It will be fine just starting it normally , just check it has enough oil first , i’ve left cars for longer and not had an issue
Old 27 January 2019 | 11:47 AM
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Just tried it again after charging my new lithium ion pack up overnight and nothing, wont even slightly turn it over. ****ing waste of £80
Old 28 January 2019 | 01:41 PM
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My battery was like this, don't use the car all that often now so every time i'd come to start it the battery was dead. I bought a c-tek 5.0 batttery charger / conditioner
which would condition it, charge it back up and afterwards it would be ok for maybe 5 days or so before being back to struggling to start if it started at all.
Finally admitted defeat just before xmas and bought a Yuasa silver battery for it, think i paid £59 off E-Bay, so much better now, it still starts after being left for
a couple of weeks.
Old 28 January 2019 | 04:35 PM
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Pull the fuel pump relay from the fuse box, crank until you get oil pressure, put relay back and start.

Done.
Old 28 January 2019 | 05:01 PM
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Originally Posted by BrownPantsRacing
Pull the fuel pump relay from the fuse box, crank until you get oil pressure, put relay back and start.

Done.
why though when he can just put the throttle flat to the floor and it'll do the exact same thing?
Old 28 January 2019 | 05:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Gambit
why though when he can just put the throttle flat to the floor and it'll do the exact same thing?
Nope, I didn't know this either!
Old 28 January 2019 | 05:31 PM
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Originally Posted by BrownPantsRacing
Nope, I didn't know this either!
i feel as though im being had here, kev @ the clinic suggests that doing this will demolish the engine.

i will be removing the fuel pump fuse for the cranking
Old 28 January 2019 | 05:42 PM
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Kev clearly doesnt actually know everything then as people like to say lol

it will not start . i done it on my old hawk sti spec D after each oil change and now on my hatch 330s. want me to take a video for you lol
Old 28 January 2019 | 07:16 PM
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Video lol

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Originally Posted by Gambit
Fella, I told people this for years and they still don’t believe you

I first learnt of this back in the 1990’s when my XR3i used to flood itself in winter (sticky lifters, loses compression, so stalls then floods with fuel)...funny that even 2005 1.25/1.4 Fiestas can the very same thing (start, stall, then flood) and the cure is the same..foot to the floor to stop the fuel being injected.

Subaru same...that used to flood if I accidentally stalled it when hot.

PSA Prince engines do still inject a little fuel, but not enough to start (found that out when diagnosing one with a faulty temp sensor making it think it was -30degrees, so literally poured the fuel in at normal throttle positions.

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Not buying it. You definitely doctored that video!
Old 30 January 2019 | 03:38 PM
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Originally Posted by BrownPantsRacing
Not buying it. You definitely doctored that video!
must have doctored mine as well
Old 30 January 2019 | 03:41 PM
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Fake news!

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