Flooded Help!

[AnOxiA]

It was really cold here the other day and my car won't turn over. -29 degrees Celsius overnight and I think my gas line froze. Well I put about a bottle of the gas line antifreeze into a half a tank of gas and let it sit all day. That night I tried again. It was trying to catch but won't start. I could smell fuel and knew that my lines weren't froze any more. So I decided to leave it over night to see if it would start in the morning. Again the same thing. I took off the spark plugs and found that they were soaked in gas. The gaps were filled for gods sake. I cleaned them off, put them back in, pulled the injector wires and tried to turn it over again, hoping that would dry out my cylinders. Plug them back in and still the same trying to catch... like on one cylinder. I decided to pull the spark plugs again and when I was doing it there was warm vapour coming out of cylinder number 3. So I guess that only 3 was firing and the rest were dead.

Currently I left the spark plugs out so the cylinders can dry out and will try an old set of plugs that I kept in my toolbox from my last change.

Any suggestions here? I am running a 97 tsi with V1 DSMLInk.

 

[AnOxiA]

After getting a boost, I cracked the car over with no spark plugs and with the injectors disconnected. I then checked the plugs before putting them back and they were weak. So the flooded gas really did do something to my plugs. I put them back in the cylinders anyway and turned it over again with injetors still disconnected until I was confident that all the fuel was gone. Believe me I was shocked to see it initially wanted to kick over from all the fuel that was still in it. I reconnected the fuel injectors and VIOLA.. it started right off the bat. I am going to go get new plugs this afternoon to change the ruined ones that I have now.

For all you guys out there that may be experiencing the same thing follow this advice and check your spark then do as I did... remove spark plugs.. disconnect injector wires.. check spark.. put plugs back in if OK.. crank to rid the remaining fuel.. reconnect injectors.. start normally(no full throttle or pumping or any of that). I hope this helps. Also I would like to thank other guys who left their advice in other threads about how to get around this thing.