Posted by Stephen Newell on June 06, 2018 at 05:18:43 from (166.137.126.24):
In Reply to: Re: Water in gas tank. posted by Steve@Advance on June 06, 2018 at 04:43:30:
The car is a 1987 Oldsmobile Delta 88 with fuel injection. The car was parked because it wasn't getting any fire at the plugs. Over the years the car had been to two different dealers and more than a half dozen different mechanics and nobody could find the problem. It would run for a while and just suddenly stop running. For most of the last two years I was convinced the problem was in the wiring so when I had time to work on it I was tracing wire by wire looking for a short. Finally giving up on the wiring I ended up replacing the ignition switch and the cars computer. Then someone suggested the crankshaft position sensor was bad so the last three weekends I've been trying to get the harmonic balancer off and gave up. Then I started taking a lot of other parts off the car to access the sensor and replaced it. I had had a mechanic change that sensor three years ago and it didn't solve the problem and didn't solve the problem this time either. While I was in there I noticed another sensor about 4" away hidden up behind the harmonic balancer so I pulled it out and discovered it was physically broken. It was the camshaft position sensor which was the problem all these years that nobody could diagnose.
I knew there would be fuel problems from the car sitting so long. I just hope at this point it's just water. At first I was going to remove the gas tank and flush it out with a solvent before putting gas in it but they made it so difficult to remove I gave up. Anyway the car is running like I have some water in the gas tank. It will either run fine or not at all. Even when it's not running the spark plugs are firing so it isn't still the original problem.
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