"bigbeaver" <bigbeaver@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:W%4Og.5147$y61.403@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>I have 1996 1500 V8. I'm sole owner and an old man. I do believe I'm
still
> burning .95 cents a gollon gas. About every 4/5 weeks I drive it to the
> local
> Safeway, only because my wife is driving the other vehicle. It has
about
> 25000 miles on it now because when I first got it I was doing local
> appliance
> repair and used it alot. Anyhow - two or three days ago I went out to
use
> it
> and it would not start. There is at the very first instace of trying to
> start
> it seems to catch, and the it just grinds away. One of my grandbabies,
> who is
> an expert motorcycle mechanic (thundermfg.com) tells me it is probably
the
> injectors because it sits for weeks without being started. How do I do
> self
> help to clean those injectors? I'm halfway passable in reparing washers
> and
> refrigerators.
>
That sounds like water. I assume your filter is clean. Water sucks when
added to fuel. It gets added from the air, whether you like it or not.
First, keep your fuel tank full- this reduces the amount of condensation
that forms inside your tank. Condensation comes from the air that enters
the tank when fuel leaves. Condensation becomes water on the walls of
your
tank, then sinks to the bottom of the tank, where it is sucked up to your
fuel line. If you don't drive for a long time, this water becomes a
problem.
Second, if you don't drive it a lot, get some clean, new, expensive fuel
in
there, and add some sta-bil to stabilize your fuel over a long period of
time. Gas (and the additives added by the refiner/distributor) breaks
down.
Sta-bil keeps it stable longer.
You may or may not have to clean your injectors, I would try to add some
fuel line drier (basically alcohol) which mixes with the water, and makes
it
burnable. This will get rid of any water already in your system. Keep
trying this first- it's easier and cheaper than jumping right on your
injectors.
After that, then you might consider cleaning/checking your injectors.
Give
the drier some time to work.
geotek
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