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Re: E36 M3 Stalled, won't start



"Mark Cecil" <mjcecil@domain.elided> wrote:
> Alex, John, W.P. and the rest:
> 
> Thank you for your responses...  According to more than one person, 
> the fuel pump continues to run while the car is in motion - Always,
> apparently. And this is the source of my inexplicable flood.

Mark,
The fuel pump runs all the time when the ignition is ON.
That should not be confused with injectors firing and dumping fuel in the 
cylinders.

> Alex mentions that the restarts themselves contributed to the flood
> issue, and for the reasons he states, I agree, but it was the actual
> act of allowing the car to roll a significant distance after turning
> the engine off (in support of the aforementioned OBC check code reset)
> that forced fuel into the cylinders and caused the initial flooded 
> situation.

Probably not, but that's all academic now. 

alex f
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