'99 S70 AWD won't start, cranks fine

Post by **burnout8488** » 01 Nov 2011, 19:01

Wow, the car just fired right up. I added a half gallon.

There must be water at the bottom of my tank or something! It was getting fuel just fine at the injectors, but it had to be bad for some reason.

PROBLEM SOLVED

Nuttydriver · Post by **Nuttydriver** » 01 Nov 2011, 19:03

It don't take much water to make it run bad and when it gets low it stirs up the water even more and puts it through the fuel system in larger quantanties. Hope some fresh gas works for you.

Nuttydriver · Post by **Nuttydriver** » 01 Nov 2011, 19:05

Good deal keep it above a quarter tank and you should be ok. If there isn't much in there dry gas should work but it causes the water to go through the system all in one shot

Post by **jblackburn** » 01 Nov 2011, 19:54

Woot! I was going to say it sounds like you're out of gas. Glad it was something simple in the end!

Post by **burnout8488** » 02 Nov 2011, 12:41

I'm extremely happy, and as a bonus, the car runs better than ever now that I've replaced all the sensors and cleaned some things along the way.

The gas station I filled up at (weeks ago) was apparently affected by the huge flood we had a month ago. One of my friends with an S4 had to drain his tank completely as there was water in the gas. I totally forgot and filled up the Volvo there. The water likely settled to the bottom, so when I got to around 2 gallons of gas/water, it started ingesting it. Adding the half gallon of fuel mustve stirred it up and gotten more fuel in.

I added isopropyl ISO-Heet last night and hopefully that takes care of it.

'99 S70 AWD won't start, cranks fine

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