I MUST Fix This Fuel Problem
Okay, I’ve got $340 bucks to my name (after paying off the new monitor, that is) and I am hoping to pour every last cent of it into FIXING, once and for all, the injector leak on the Formula. This crap has got to stop.
Yes, obviously it must be an injector leak. There can’t be any other answer now. Based on the fuel pressure tests, and how diluted the old oil was when I changed it this evening, it must be one or more injectors that aren’t pulsing, and instead are just dumping fuel as long as the key is on. Whether the injectors themselves are to blame, or whether it’s the computer sending erroneous commands or a fault with the wiring between the two, is the only remaining mystery. I’m starting to suspect one of the latter two; I mean, I just can’t believe that eight brand new injectors would be malfunctioning in the same way as the eight relatively new ones I replaced them with. The fact that other stuff is going wrong, like the torque converter clutch not locking (that’s something that should not happen under any normal circumstances), not to mention the strange low-RPM bog, makes me think that maybe the ECM has gone batshit insane.
Rather than play mechanic and try to determine what I need to replace or repair, I’m throwing in the towel. I’m gonna take the car to a shop I was recently recommended by a fellow transplanted Detroiter and friend from work, present everything I know about the problem, and leave it up to them to determine what component is at fault. This is a major problem, and it’s apparently beyond my newbie self to solve without experimenting. Experimenting is expensive. And on my budget these days, expensive is impossible.
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