This morning I inadvertantly flooded my Celica GT engine on starting, and it took me all of two hours before I was finally able to get away.....
This hasn't happened to me since about 6 months after I bought this car new in 1997, when I was a little casual and had my foot down on the throttle pedal as I cranked the starter. It then 'flooded' the engine, and no matter how long I gunned it, it refused to fire up. The sparkplugs were obviously too wet.
The Toyota dealer told me to leave it for a while. Then to put my foot hard down on the throttle pedal & keep it there until the engine started. This didn't make much sense to me (isn't fuel flow proportional to throttle pedal position?) but after I had recharged the battery I did this and the engine did indeed eventually stagger into life.
With any other car I would have immediately pulled all the plugs and dried them out. But on this engine the plugs are set so deep into the engine block that I feared that I might not get a good start on the thread, and really foul things up.
This car has recently been serviced at 72K miles and also has just has a it's first new battery. And apart from the regular consumables, I haven't had to spend a bean on worn out components etc, in my nearly 8 years of ownership.
Today, I eventually did remove all 4 plugs and dried them out and so got the engine running after a shaky start.
So I'm left wondering - what's the normal cause & best solution to this flooding?
David
David