Holland, many thanks. I did check the 5th injector (cold start injector) and it was totally dry. It might not even be working, but at least I can be sure it's not contributing to this problem.
After dinner I worked up the guts to dive into the fuel distributor ....the Bentley's pictures aren't worth much, but a short paragraph of text was pretty precise for checking the plunger. I pulled it out with quite a bit of resistance, cleaned it up a bit with qtips and fresh gas, and it went back together nicely. Put all the intake pipes back and crossed my fingers as I turned the key. A bit of a sputter, but then started up. Ran rough for 15 seconds and then settled in decently. A ton of bluish smoke, presumably from the half of gallon of gas sitting in the downpipe and cat. It will be interesting to see if my O2 sensor still works after this debacle. Honestly guys, I used to enjoy working on this car...but now with a fear of snapping brittle wires everytime I touch something, it is quickly losing it's fun. Part of me wishes I could pull out all of the electronics and run megasquirt or even carbs, but I can't justify the investment. Thanks again.... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MK2-16v" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mk2-16v+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to mk2-16v@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mk2-16v. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mk2-16v/d1311c2d-c2a3-467f-aa03-f91ea207502a%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
