I currently own a 95 Maxima that refuses to start..I purchased the car for 1400 and for a few days it ran lovely then one day it decided to stop working..So me bing the complete idiot that i am, i called up a local mechanic to tow my car to look at it..After weeks of waiting for them to pick it up, they finally got and and a few hours later he told me that i flooded my engine and that it was filled with gasoline...Im not really worried about the cost to fix the problem...I was just curious if this type of problem is serious?

 

injectors never turned off after you turn off the car?

 

No they werent..Me being the idiot that i am, i allowed my bro to change to fuel injectors and i think he forgot a gasket..I think thats the reason why my engine fluided..what u guys think?

 

oh brother...break out the syphon hose and start sucking....

 

^ is that what my mechanics going to do? just drain it?

 

If the motors flooded alot (alot of cranking), the gas probably seeped down past the cylinder walls and into the oil...drain the oil and refill. Then do another oil change within a few hundred miles to make sure all the gas is out depending on how many times you cranked the motor. Youll probably need new plugs as well.

Add some O-Rings on those injectors while your at it too. lol

-matt

 

to get the gas out you can pull the FI fuse/relay and start cranking lol

 

u might have to change the plugs too....they are prolly soaked with gas

 

^Thank you all.

 

I am a new return to maxima.org as I now own a 97 maxima. I originally owned a 90 maxima a few years back and they were notorious for fuel injector problems. I had to go through and replace a few injectors. I thought that the lower gasket stayed inside the injector cup but I was wrong. I replaced the injector with no lower gasket... started the car and it ran for like 10 seconds before the engine slammed to a stop. Tryed cranking it again and something was very very wrong. So I tore it down again. Took the plugs out and cranked it. Fuel shot out like a cannon. Ok... so I know what I did wrong. Cranked it til the fuel was all out of the cylinder and replaced everything correctly. It was good to go... For a few months. The thing not realized is the damage caused to the piston rod during the incident. I was driving to classes one day and took off from a light and that was the end of that engine. The #4 piston shot right up into the head. That was the end of that engine. The problem with getting fuel in your pistons is that liquids DO NOT compress like gasses do... and that can really do some damage with all that torque behind it. eg... learing the hard way.

 

drain the oil and vaccum the mother out with a small vac attachment.. duct tape a small rubber hose to your shop vac and stick it thru the spark plug hole.

 

thats very true, liquids do not compress, somethings gotta give, whether thats your headgasket, rod, piston, or etc..hopefully you havent done any serious damage yet.

 

I think vacuuming up gas is a bad idea. There are sparks in the vacuum cleaner motor.

 

Quick Story:

A 78 yr old male locked his keys in his car while the car was running and couldnt figure out how to get inside the car. He left it idleing over night to try and run it out of gas, and in the morning it was still running. He decided to fire up his vaccum and suck the gas out of the gas tank. He started sucking up the gas and it exploded inside of the vaccum cleaner. He was rushed to the hospital and was pronoused dead on arrival.

-matt