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- Location
- Michigan
- Vehicle Year
- 1987
- Make / Model
- Ford
- Engine Type
- 2.9 V6
- Engine Size
- 177 CID
- Transmission
- Manual
- 2WD / 4WD
- 2WD
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- A legend to the old man, a hero to the child...
Was over at my buddies tonight trying to figure out why my damn pos polaris is burning oil....
Anyways i pulled the valve cover to squirt dubious amounts of oil onto the springs to see if the smoking intesified to see how far i was gonna have to dig...
(Hint, its bad rings) but anyways....
We had to remove the fuel tank and all front plastic to really get to the valve cover. So in order for it to run we took the fuel line and just hooked it directly to the carb (more on this in a minute) and tried to crank it. The thing spun about 1 revolution then stopped dead. Wouldnt crank no more, tried the recoil, locked.
"Shit now what"
So we pulled the plug to see if it mighta been the decompression lever, pulled the plug and a massive stre....no wait...geyser of gas came out to rival old faithful.
Anyways, we shined his little pen light down the plug hole and said "pull it (with recoil) over slowly".
I did and when the recoil grabbed and spun the thing over a huge geyser of fuel came out and soaked his face, eyes, etc as he was about 6 inches above the plug hole. He started freaking out cause he couldnt see, he grabbed my hand i led him in the house where he flushed his eyes for about 15 minutes.
Everyones fine and 20 mins later once he got his eyes cleaned and could see again it was the source of much amusement. But what caused it was he accidently hooked the fuel line on a massive vacuum port for the fuel pump, so it just flooded everything, the carb, air box, cylinder, etc. The port for the fuel pump and the fuel inlet look just alike and it was an easy mixup
So this time turned out ok, but just be safe out there fellas.
Anyways i pulled the valve cover to squirt dubious amounts of oil onto the springs to see if the smoking intesified to see how far i was gonna have to dig...
(Hint, its bad rings) but anyways....
We had to remove the fuel tank and all front plastic to really get to the valve cover. So in order for it to run we took the fuel line and just hooked it directly to the carb (more on this in a minute) and tried to crank it. The thing spun about 1 revolution then stopped dead. Wouldnt crank no more, tried the recoil, locked.
"Shit now what"
So we pulled the plug to see if it mighta been the decompression lever, pulled the plug and a massive stre....no wait...geyser of gas came out to rival old faithful.
Anyways, we shined his little pen light down the plug hole and said "pull it (with recoil) over slowly".
I did and when the recoil grabbed and spun the thing over a huge geyser of fuel came out and soaked his face, eyes, etc as he was about 6 inches above the plug hole. He started freaking out cause he couldnt see, he grabbed my hand i led him in the house where he flushed his eyes for about 15 minutes.
Everyones fine and 20 mins later once he got his eyes cleaned and could see again it was the source of much amusement. But what caused it was he accidently hooked the fuel line on a massive vacuum port for the fuel pump, so it just flooded everything, the carb, air box, cylinder, etc. The port for the fuel pump and the fuel inlet look just alike and it was an easy mixup
So this time turned out ok, but just be safe out there fellas.