After all day at the dealership, then another trip back into Wichita last night to O'Reilly, we didn't have a lot of time to work on the car on Saturday. We tried so hard to get the engine to turn over all the way, but it just wasn't going to do it, even with the new battery and a new coil.
Today, dirty injectors. We came home from church and tried to get it to start again. No luck. It starts, but it just isn't catching. Diagnosis is dirty injectors and really old gas.
I went back into Wichita to O'Reilly again to get injectors, then to Auto Zone and Advance Auto parts to find more injectors, a key for the lock nuts on the tires, and a fuel pressure regulator. They only had one injector in stock anywhere and it took 4 other places to find the regulator.
I spent part of the evening vacuuming out all the gross mouse grossness. I hate mice in cars. Just gross. That is one of my least favorite things, mice nests. I really want to rip everything out right now, but need to wait until we have tubs to put everything into.
Cowboy and Wild Bill worked on pulling the other injectors and cleaning them. After they got everything assembled again, the car wouldn't start at all. Which turned out to be due to a loose battery terminal connection as opposed to something else.
However, all that work and she still won't turn all the way over. Cowboy thinks this is probably due to a vacuum hose leak or broken plastic connector. Unfortunately, we have track meets the next two evenings so finding that will have to wait.
I should add, on this one, we're not trying for our normal crazy timeline. We do have to finish in under a year since the girl will be driving next summer, but we don't have to get it done before the end of summer. Oh man, I just realized with that huge back window and small car, LESS SANDING!
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