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mctwin2kman · #4 01-27-2005, 12:43 PM

First thing you do is pull the plugs and check the chamber's one at a time for coolant! Also check the oil and coolant bottle for oil in the coolant or coolant in the oil. My head gasket gave out slightly a few weeks back. I fixed it immediately and did not even start the car after I first noticed oil in the coolant bottle. But in the blowing of the head gasket it shot crap into the Pre-Cats and clogged them. So when I was done with the head gasket and had clogged pre-cats and did not know it I threw money into injectors and a new fuel filter, to find out that was not the issue. Then I finally disconnected the exhaust at the header and downpipe and the car ran great. Pulled the exhaust and gutted the pre-cats and cleaned the down pipes out of debri. Now the car runs better than it ever did. So my point here is before you kill it more, do some checking, then if all is well with the oil, coolant, chambers and timing chain proceed to the exhaust, first get a rubber mallet and tap the Cat's and Pre-Cats and listen for loose crap rattling around. If you hear something pull the Exhaust at the manifole to downpipe connection and see if it starts! Check fuel flow and all as well. As for you cold start injector having fuel in the line, I would assume it should, by design it shoudl be pre-charged with fuel and have no air in the line to work properly. That is how mine is!