20V 4A-GE ST - Starting issue

[NZMikey]

Im back onto this today,

I pulled the oil plug and let a little oil out after noticing the volume of oil on the dipstick was quite a fair way up there. After doing this, i noticed the oil was extremely thin and smelt like fuel - going to drain some more out and put some fresh oil in there just to thinken it up a bit while working on it.

Timing belt was re-positioned and tightened up. Didnt get a chance to check the spark yet, but will do that tonight. I am also going to put it behind a 4wd and tow the sucker and see if it will fire up and do the running diagnostics while im at it.

Will reply with all the details once done.

[NZMikey]

Alright, I got somewhere?

Tested the plugs out, found that the plugs were arking to the side, great, found an issue (It appears that the new plugs i brought may have been faulty this entire time). Store was closed so couldn't get some new plugs. Took the plugs out of a corrolla, (They were a little different, but nothing that would cause damage). Boom, car started, I adjusted ign timing, and there it was, running by itself without any sort of assistance.

Now, 2 things from this:
1. Car wouldn't start if i applied any acceleration what so ever while turning it over.

2. Smokey as hell.

However, it did have power, I could accelerate and it would redline in seconds.

This morning, I went to buy new plugs for it. Now we are back at the start.. sort of. Car will start, however, it dies pretty quickly unless i pulsate on the accelerator. Still smokey as hell, but it fires.

[matt dunn]

I have found that if you need to constantly pump the throttle to keep a car going it is a fuel pressure problem.
Pull the return line off not the feed line and put a hose on it into a bucket or container.
If you don't get a decent amount of fuel out of the hose while cranking then you don't have enough pressure