TSIMonsteR
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- Nov 23, 2003
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HP,
North Carolina
Okay... so the car was running decent (minus a phantom boost leak) but I finally got around to mounting my small battery today. (I've had the battery for more than a year)
I had the battery on the charger all night and did a test crank with it before I began the install and it was fine. (Odyssey PC680)
So I proceed to uninstall the old battery and the battery tray. Underneath the tray I come across the Purge Control Valve and the small part that goes to the Charcoal/Evap Canister.
Since this stuff (I thought) wasn't doing anything anyway and probably the source of a boost leak I've been hunting, I decided to remove this stuff. I rerouted the vacuum lines to the appropriate places and capped off what needed to be, and finished the battery install.
Okay, so I'm done. I hop in the car and it cranks on the first try but is running terribly rich, idling at 3k and blowing black smoke out of the exhaust. Okay, no problem, I probably just forgot to plug in a vac line or cap something. Sure enough, I forgot to plug in the EGR solenoid. Plugged it back up, got in the car, and now it won't start...
I tried a couple of different things, but no luck. I figured I assumed wrong and maybe I needed all the stuff I removed... so I hooked it back up.. still no start. So now I'm lost. I've checked and rechecked all the lines and they are hooked up as they were before. I have attached an image of how I had the lines hooked up the first time it would not start.
Someone guide me on what to try next, or how I should proceed... I'm sure I'm just being an airhead...
I had the battery on the charger all night and did a test crank with it before I began the install and it was fine. (Odyssey PC680)
So I proceed to uninstall the old battery and the battery tray. Underneath the tray I come across the Purge Control Valve and the small part that goes to the Charcoal/Evap Canister.
Since this stuff (I thought) wasn't doing anything anyway and probably the source of a boost leak I've been hunting, I decided to remove this stuff. I rerouted the vacuum lines to the appropriate places and capped off what needed to be, and finished the battery install.
Okay, so I'm done. I hop in the car and it cranks on the first try but is running terribly rich, idling at 3k and blowing black smoke out of the exhaust. Okay, no problem, I probably just forgot to plug in a vac line or cap something. Sure enough, I forgot to plug in the EGR solenoid. Plugged it back up, got in the car, and now it won't start...
I tried a couple of different things, but no luck. I figured I assumed wrong and maybe I needed all the stuff I removed... so I hooked it back up.. still no start. So now I'm lost. I've checked and rechecked all the lines and they are hooked up as they were before. I have attached an image of how I had the lines hooked up the first time it would not start.
Someone guide me on what to try next, or how I should proceed... I'm sure I'm just being an airhead...
