my cars not right

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Well here’s the story….My car was running kinda sluggish so I talked to a guy down the block that fixes lawn mowers and he said that maybe the gas was old. He said I needed to maybe clean my fuel system out, and I think I might have done something bad.

What I did was went to Home Depot and got some Liquid Plumber and added it to my fuel tank ( I used the gel b/c it’s stronger) and I think it worked too good because now my injectors are plugged up, at least that’s what the lawn mower guy says, IDK.

So I pulled the injectors to clean them one at a time. I took each one out and buffed them up on my wire wheel real good and they look nice and clean now. But now the problem is I think that something is wrong with the computer because the injectors squirt real good but they don’t stop. The reason I know this is because three of them popped out when I tried to start the motor. But I fixed that with some J-B Weld and tapped them all in with a hammer. They are all nice and tight now but the car still won’t run very smooth or very long. Some times when I try to start it raw gas drips out of the exhaust pipe, not a lot though, is that bad?

I have been working on this for a long time now and every time I go back to work on it there seems to be something else wrong I’m at a loss for ideas. I thought that because it was a little rich ( fuel dripping from the tail pipe) maybe it was starving for air. So I used my shop vac (on blow of course, I’m not stupid) to blow air into the throttle body. That was real easy to get to because one time when it back fired it burned the intake tube off (guess that will be a trip to the junk yard for a replacement), but if any body has a spare let me know. Any way what I did was turned the shop vac on and let it build up some pressure then tried to start it. To my suprize it fired right up and idled real fast for about 10 seconds then started to shake and slowed down then made a loud sort of clunking noise and stopped. After that it wouldn’t even turn over with the key. Could that be a PATS issue?

Sorry for the long post and any help would be appreciated . Thanks in advance. Oh yea this site rocks!
 
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You should've been double clutching, not granny shifting. Suprised you didn't blow the welds on your intake manifold.
 
Maybe you should just jack the car up, and put another more reliable car under it...then let the jack down. It worked for me last April.
 
You need to polish the head by running a couple bags of sandblasting sand through the intake while having someone rev the engine at 5k rpms. That'll fix it.
 
You used a wire wheel on your injectors? FOOL! Use a bandsaw, and cut off the bottom 1/16-inch or so. Really opens up the fuel flow and cuts off any restrictive parts that might get in the way. All the extra gas will really increase the octane of your spark plugs.
 
Can't you make a high rise intake manifold out of J-B Weld? Should be good for at least 100 more hp if you put a 4 barrel Holley carburator on top with the fuel injection underneath! Just be sure to run fuel from a Y off of the fuel injection fuel line.
 
April Fool's jokes really need to have a certain degree of plausibility to succeed. Nice effort, though.
 
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