gnm2140 Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 Greetings to all! I just joined and is already counting on somebody's expertise. I have a 1997 Subaru Legacy Brighton 2.2L 5 speed, 65,000 miles. Friday night the car wouldn't start. It felt like there was no spark (that's what I thought). I bought new plugs, pulled out the old ones and found them flooded with gas (I was cranking it trying to start for quite some time). So I thought that there was fuel and no spark. I put new plugs in and the car started right up! I shut it down, started again, did it the third time - it didn't start. It was yesterday. Today (fuel evaporated) it started fine. Now I think the ignition was not a problem, but it was flooding the plugs to the point of no burning. Interesting enough, a friend in Boston has a 1997 Legacy L, and he had the same issue on Friday. Question. What would cause gas overflow? It hasn't happened before. When it happened the first time on Friday, I just drove to a parking lot, came back five hours later, didn't touch the pedal, and tried to start with no results. And should I mention that here we have temperature around -4F/-20C? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cougar Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 I would first verify that the ignition is working when this happens again by placing a spare plug in one of the wires and setting the plug on a ground point of the engine. Then look for spark while cranking the engine. If spark really is ok then I guess the flooding is the issue. It may be the injector is leaking if you have one. If you have a carburator then the float may be bad and causing this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnm2140 Posted January 27, 2005 Author Share Posted January 27, 2005 Glen, I checked the ignition, it was fine, very strong spark. The car is fuel injected. And hasn't happened again! I might go through all the sensors when the weather permits. At least check them with multimeter. But for now it is an unsolved mistery. Thank you, Greg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cougar Posted January 27, 2005 Share Posted January 27, 2005 If there is a sensor problem, the ECU should catch it and set a code in memory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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