blackmax
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So the other night, I finally bought an injector for my black car locally for $20. Today i installed it, and after spending an hour and change putting everything back together, I get in the car and turn the key only to find out the battery is dead. So, I hop in the ski boat and grab its battery to try and jump it since it was impossible to get another car close enough to jump. That battery is dead as well. I go out to my pearl maxima, take it's battery out and crank it over, it cranks quite a bit but never wants to start. Eventually that battery is so low on juice, it won't crank anymore. At this point, it's about 2:30 PM and i'd really like to see if this damn thing is going to start. Unfortunately, I don't have any batteries to crank till my heart's content so I hook one up to the old charger and go to bed (yeah at 2:30 pm). At 11:00 tonight i get up and go straight outside, hook the semi charged battery up to the car and give it a whirl. It starts within a second or 2, so I let it warm to idle, only to realize that gas is spewing all over the place and the engine catches on fire!
hah jk, miss is gone, engine revs smooth. I have no insurance on that car yet so i can't drive it tonight, but it's a sigh of relief because it didn't seem like it was going to fire up earlier, probably just flooded it with all that weak cranking. Anyway, it'll be interesting to see how this thing drives now that it's fixed. So yup, I just wanted to share the story. Time to do some battery charging..
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when i did mine i drove it and it was smooth for about 15 minutes then i smelt gas. the O ring blew on it ><. had to take it all apart the next weekend when i had time and replace a 3$ part. sigh* the worst part was having to drive my mothers grand am. ><
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Originally Posted by ColombianMax
So how long you take replacing it? and what is your machanical experience? newb, intermediate or advanced?
hmm: yeah, i was thinking about your thread when i made the joke
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chris: hehe, that's true man, but a convoy of maximas should be able to handle the task
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