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  • dothadance
    E30 Enthusiast
    • Jun 2011
    • 1121

    #316
    Firing on all 8. checked my spark plugs, they smell like old gas... draining the tank and have a fresh fuel filter in the waiting. Though i'm still weary of the condition of my coil packs. Got it to run for quite a minute today, but it took quite a bit of work with the throttle.

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    • dothadance
      E30 Enthusiast
      • Jun 2011
      • 1121

      #317
      she idles! had a pretty serious fuel rail leak, bent the mounting tab to put more pressure on the fuel injector (temporary fix). the problem now is it doesn't rev over 2000ish (guess) rpm. i don't know if it's due to my older gas, or wiring, or mechanical. does the fact that i have an automatic harness change anything? currently i just have what i'm assuming is the transmission connector just dangling.

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      • dasmanschaft012
        Mod Crazy
        • Apr 2014
        • 642

        #318
        auto harness is fine as long as you dont connect the harness to anything.

        how old is your gas? i have 3month old 91oct sitting in my s13. When I got it running, it misfired, wouldnt rev etc. I emptied the tank mostly, threw some fresh 91 in and it ran perfect. I would reccomend flushing the old gas out if its over a couple months old.
        We're in deep now boys
        1988 325i SETA - Daily driver
        1988 340iL - Track car
        My M60 V8 swap thread here
        [oo==OO==oo]

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        • dothadance
          E30 Enthusiast
          • Jun 2011
          • 1121

          #319
          Originally posted by dasmanschaft012
          auto harness is fine as long as you dont connect the harness to anything.

          how old is your gas? i have 3month old 91oct sitting in my s13. When I got it running, it misfired, wouldnt rev etc. I emptied the tank mostly, threw some fresh 91 in and it ran perfect. I would reccomend flushing the old gas out if its over a couple months old.
          lol, older than 3 months that's for sure. going to drain the tank sometime in the next couple days.

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          • dothadance
            E30 Enthusiast
            • Jun 2011
            • 1121

            #320
            Quick idle clip from when I first got it going. My v band on my passenger side manifold doesn't mate perfectly and I need to weld a muffler on lol. It kind of revs up at first, from what I'm assuming is fluctuations from the old gas, there's no throttle input. http://cloud.tapatalk.com/s/598f5180...074023_170.mp4

            Will upload properly later.


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            Last edited by dothadance; 08-12-2017, 11:18 AM.

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            • dothadance
              E30 Enthusiast
              • Jun 2011
              • 1121

              #321
              Just drained my old gas. About 2.5 gallons of nice deep amber brown gas.

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              • dothadance
                E30 Enthusiast
                • Jun 2011
                • 1121

                #322
                Installed fresh gas, runs the same and smokes like crazy! it doesn't smell like oil.. but idk. borrowed my brothers IR thermometer and my #5 cylinder is cold. Performed a stomp test and came up with code 1255 (#5 fuel injector). So i'm hoping my injector is just stuck open, hopefully running that old gas something just got stuck in there. With that being said, ever since i finished most of my exhaust i wondered if there was a left and right bank for the o2 connectors. (the 2 connectors are the same on the harness) Turns out, from what i've been reading, they are side specific and if you have them mixed up it will run like shit. so tomorrow i'm going to test fuel pressure, swap around fuel injectors and test codes, and swap my o2's around. wish me luck!

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                • dothadance
                  E30 Enthusiast
                  • Jun 2011
                  • 1121

                  #323
                  ... stressing this smoke thing...

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                  • dasmanschaft012
                    Mod Crazy
                    • Apr 2014
                    • 642

                    #324
                    what color is the smoke? whats smoking? also check that plug on the dead cylinder
                    We're in deep now boys
                    1988 325i SETA - Daily driver
                    1988 340iL - Track car
                    My M60 V8 swap thread here
                    [oo==OO==oo]

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                    • dothadance
                      E30 Enthusiast
                      • Jun 2011
                      • 1121

                      #325
                      Originally posted by dasmanschaft012
                      what color is the smoke? whats smoking? also check that plug on the dead cylinder
                      White smoke. It doesn't really smell like burning oil... but it looks like my oil level has gone down, maybe it's because I'm parked on a hill tho. Checking fuel pressure, compression and plugs right now.

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                      • dothadance
                        E30 Enthusiast
                        • Jun 2011
                        • 1121

                        #326
                        Driver side down pipe is covered in oil! I have a bunch it's from cylinder #5.

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                        • dothadance
                          E30 Enthusiast
                          • Jun 2011
                          • 1121

                          #327
                          Cylinders 5 6 and 7. 180 psi. Cylinder 8, 90. Found the problem. I don't know wtf happened...[emoji17]

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                          • flyboyx
                            R3V OG
                            • Sep 2008
                            • 8371

                            #328
                            Ah shit........!

                            White smoke is generally oil.

                            Perhaps the rings are stuck from sitting?

                            How did you acquire the engine? Do you know any history?
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                            • dasmanschaft012
                              Mod Crazy
                              • Apr 2014
                              • 642

                              #329
                              did you figure out which side is which for the O2 sensors? both connectors on my harness were chopped off, I need to figure out which side is which before i solder connectors back on
                              We're in deep now boys
                              1988 325i SETA - Daily driver
                              1988 340iL - Track car
                              My M60 V8 swap thread here
                              [oo==OO==oo]

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                              • dothadance
                                E30 Enthusiast
                                • Jun 2011
                                • 1121

                                #330
                                Originally posted by flyboyx
                                Ah shit........!

                                White smoke is generally oil.

                                Perhaps the rings are stuck from sitting?

                                How did you acquire the engine? Do you know any history?
                                I have no idea what happened. But this isn't the first time I've compression tested it so this should have shown up last year! Not only that but there was no smoke until 2 days ago. Dont remember the history of the motor, I bought it so long ago, but I don't remember it being anything suspicious.
                                Originally posted by dasmanschaft012
                                did you figure out which side is which for the O2 sensors? both connectors on my harness were chopped off, I need to figure out which side is which before i solder connectors back on
                                I swapped them earlier, no change. My stomp test stopped working (idk if its because I swapped the sensors) so I can't see if any codes changed.

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