Hey everyone,
OMG! I have had the worst winter with my supra. In November the supra wouldn't start on random mornings. I thought that i had let the fuel tank get too low and so it got a little condensation. So to fix it, i just started keeping my fuel tank above 1/2 mark all the time. Well, that worked for like a week. Then i filled the tank fully and the next morning it took 15 minutes of chugging to get her to start. This was the very end of November.
So i went out and bought myself a few bottles of the Heet fuel antifreeze. Wa la! It worked. If i poured 1 full bottle, the car would start very quickly. But at 2 bucks a bottle, this was going to become very expensive. It also didn't work flawlessly. Sometimes it wouldn't work at all. It would take upto 10 minutes of chugging to get her to start when i would put a 1/2 bottle of heat in the car. I was thinking because the car was 1/2 down, that she wouldn't need a whole bottle.
I had no way to drain 14 gallons of fuel so i thought i needed to just get the tank pretty low and then i could drain it.
Well, that took over a month and a half to get it that low. Yesterday i drained the whole tank and then i put 9 gallons of premium in the tank.
I also want to add that once i get the car to run, it runs all day. As long as i start her again within about 4-6 hours i have no problems with getting her started again. It seems only to be problem when she hasn't been run for more then 8 hours.
This brings us to today. No start. After all that, no start. She just chuggs and chuggs. I have to try about 30-40 x to get her to actually start.
It really felt like this was a water in fuel line issue. Now i have absolutely no clue what is going on. This is my 3rd winter with this 1JZ supra. I didn't have any issues with starting until last October. I don't remember anything changing since then. The engine is relatively stock. Stock twins and 380cc injectors. About 2 months before this issue, i was having a very strange idle issue that fixed itself after about 2 weeks. She just wouldn't idle and it sounded like she was running on 5 or 4 cylinders, but magically it stopped after about 4 drives in the car. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for reading.
OMG! I have had the worst winter with my supra. In November the supra wouldn't start on random mornings. I thought that i had let the fuel tank get too low and so it got a little condensation. So to fix it, i just started keeping my fuel tank above 1/2 mark all the time. Well, that worked for like a week. Then i filled the tank fully and the next morning it took 15 minutes of chugging to get her to start. This was the very end of November.
So i went out and bought myself a few bottles of the Heet fuel antifreeze. Wa la! It worked. If i poured 1 full bottle, the car would start very quickly. But at 2 bucks a bottle, this was going to become very expensive. It also didn't work flawlessly. Sometimes it wouldn't work at all. It would take upto 10 minutes of chugging to get her to start when i would put a 1/2 bottle of heat in the car. I was thinking because the car was 1/2 down, that she wouldn't need a whole bottle.
I had no way to drain 14 gallons of fuel so i thought i needed to just get the tank pretty low and then i could drain it.
Well, that took over a month and a half to get it that low. Yesterday i drained the whole tank and then i put 9 gallons of premium in the tank.
I also want to add that once i get the car to run, it runs all day. As long as i start her again within about 4-6 hours i have no problems with getting her started again. It seems only to be problem when she hasn't been run for more then 8 hours.
This brings us to today. No start. After all that, no start. She just chuggs and chuggs. I have to try about 30-40 x to get her to actually start.
It really felt like this was a water in fuel line issue. Now i have absolutely no clue what is going on. This is my 3rd winter with this 1JZ supra. I didn't have any issues with starting until last October. I don't remember anything changing since then. The engine is relatively stock. Stock twins and 380cc injectors. About 2 months before this issue, i was having a very strange idle issue that fixed itself after about 2 weeks. She just wouldn't idle and it sounded like she was running on 5 or 4 cylinders, but magically it stopped after about 4 drives in the car. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for reading.
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