***WARNING:**** 2K1 CIVIC OWNERS READ
01-22-2002
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***WARNING:**** 2K1 CIVIC OWNERS READ
I've been noticing a lot of posts about the 7th gen being crap. TRUE! See these new cars are made with so many safety precations including automatic fuel shut off. What happens is there is a little marble in the tank that sits at a perfect position. If, by chance, you hit a bump too hard it moves and your fuel shuts off and your ecu shuts off and all that crap. It's hard to push once it does shut down too since your car is power steering. Anyways...this option is malfunctioning all over the place. My car was one of them. And about four more cars in my area also. So Becareful...If you come across this here's how to tell...
start your car, if it cranks but doesn't run...then check the gas needle. If it goes up and comes back down then try taking the intake off and pouring gas thru the front intake arm like every other asian does. IF this makes your car run for a short while then it's the fuel pump.
start your car, if it cranks but doesn't run...then check the gas needle. If it goes up and comes back down then try taking the intake off and pouring gas thru the front intake arm like every other asian does. IF this makes your car run for a short while then it's the fuel pump.
01-23-2002
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Rep Power: 0 ive had my car not turn over a few times....but then i just turn the key back to the off position and try it again and it works fine. i dont know what youre talking about with this asian thing. but if you want people to take you seriously then its not a good idea to be demeaning like that. im not asian, but im sure that would **** someone off.
01-23-2002
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Rep Power: 0 kinda like how black people can call themself the "N" word, but if anyone else does it, thier in for some ish!
Tinkerbell is asian I am assuming.
I'm not offended by the comment (me=asian)
Tinkerbell is asian I am assuming.
I'm not offended by the comment (me=asian)
01-23-2002
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Rep Power: 0 never happens to me????[IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-confused.gif[/IMG][IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-confused.gif[/IMG][IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-confused.gif[/IMG]
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Rep Power: 394 << Start your car, if it cranks but doesn't run...then check the gas needle. If it goes up and comes back down then try taking the intake off and pouring gas thru the front intake arm like every other asian does. If this makes your car run for a short while then it's the fuel pump. >>
DO NOT DO THIS! This is stupid. [IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-mad.gif[/IMG]
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Rep Power: 0 Internal combustion engine burns atomized (vapourized) fuel and not liquid fuel.
Pouring gas directly into the intake (from throttle body) could potentially flood and damage your engine since liquid gas is not compressible. After compression, there is a mere [(1650/4) / 9.2 = ~45 cm^3 or the volume of a 3.5cm sided cube) space left.
The safer way is to use the so called "Winter Starter" which you to first crank the engine and have another person spray the content into the intake tube.
The can was labelled to contain propane and butane to aid startup in cold weather.
Pouring gas directly into the intake (from throttle body) could potentially flood and damage your engine since liquid gas is not compressible. After compression, there is a mere [(1650/4) / 9.2 = ~45 cm^3 or the volume of a 3.5cm sided cube) space left.
The safer way is to use the so called "Winter Starter" which you to first crank the engine and have another person spray the content into the intake tube.
The can was labelled to contain propane and butane to aid startup in cold weather.
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Rep Power: 394 Exactly. Thank you for backing me up. I knew that something was amis, I just didn't know the reason. [IMG]i/expressions/beer_yum.gif[/IMG]
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Rep Power: 0 << I've been noticing a lot of posts about the 7th gen being crap. TRUE! See these new cars are made with so many safety precations including automatic fuel shut off. What happens is there is a little marble in the tank that sits at a perfect position. If, by chance, you hit a bump too hard it moves and your fuel shuts off and your ecu shuts off and all that crap. It's hard to push once it does shut down too since your car is power steering. Anyways...this option is malfunctioning all over the place. My car was one of them. And about four more cars in my area also. So Becareful...If you come across this here's how to tell...
start your car, if it cranks but doesn't run...then check the gas needle. If it goes up and comes back down then try taking the intake off and pouring gas thru the front intake arm like every other asian does. IF this makes your car run for a short while then it's the fuel pump. >>
why would the ecu shut off because of hitting a bump too hard???
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Rep Power: 0 Yeah, sorry, but I am not buyin it.............where do people get these stories??[IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-confused.gif[/IMG][IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-confused.gif[/IMG][IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-confused.gif[/IMG]
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Rep Power: 0 Im an Asain and I live in Canada!! Any problem with that?? And what the Heck is this guy talking about??? I never heard that one before.
Kinda stupid to put gas in the intake arm.
And what the Heck is this guy talking about??? I never heard that one before.Kinda stupid to put gas in the intake arm.
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Rep Power: 0 Why dont u just cut into the tank and take out the marble???????????? LOL
j/p damn i will rmber that if my car does that and about how long does it last?
j/p damn i will rmber that if my car does that and about how long does it last?
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Rep Power: 0 every now and then my car actslike it doesn't want to turn over then catches. kinda embarassing seeing as thou it's a new car but this marble thing i have never heard of b4. i know i have hit quite a few bumps so if this is true then i know why( or at leaest have an excuse) but im not pouring anything into my intake
so if this is true then i know why( or at leaest have an excuse) but im not pouring anything into my intake 
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