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Same here in Belgium... I keep filling with 98 Octane, the 95 Octane is now "corrupted" with Ethanol.
Any UK M3W going through belgium => go 98 Oct!
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Pure Gas Not according to this!
Last edited by Michael H; 28/11/17 05:39 PM.
What's your mileage? Who cares. Is it practical? See #1. What happens when it rains? You get wet.
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Ok 16 mile round trip to nearest purges station.
Hardly convenient.
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After brimming with fuel I leave the cap open for a mile or 2 and never have a problem.
I found this out by accident one day as I forgot to snap the fuel cap down after filling
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I assume that you don't fit the locking cap inside the fuel filler Dab? Any luck with fixing the problem Rolsmith? If it was just overfilling it should have cured itself by now, if it wasn't......?
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It is hard for it to cure itself when it won’t start☹️. Since all diagnostic results pointed at the injector, I did what I should have done a few days ago. I swapped the injectors side to side and the the problem followed the injector. My dead cylinder now fires and my good cylinder is now dead. I ordered 2 replacement injectors and they should be here Monday. I ordered 2 because you just never know...
The pins on the bad injector ohm out the same as the the good injector,so I do not know what the failure mode is. I did flush out the “bad” injector with some wd40 before swapping sides and saw no debris of any kind. If there was dirt in the fuel, I don’t see how it gets past the filters. I would have thought both injectors would clog if dirty fuel was the case.
The car gradually ran worse and worse the last mile home so maybe whatever moving part is inside the injector was just slowly freezing up.
The winter weather here in Arizona (mid 80’s today) is far too nice to have a garage bound M3W, hope to be out and about on Monday!!
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Possibly give it a squirt of ether Easystart engine starter or WD40 into the intake to get it running.
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Possibly give it a squirt of ether Easystart engine starter or WD40 into the intake to get it running. Strongly advise against using an ether based product to start an engine. It's like taking a sledge hammer to the pistons 
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No joy here in Mudville (baseball poem where the mighty Casey struck out). After exhausting my bag of trouble shooting tricks, I had the rig transported to Brighton Motorsports just across town. They no longer sell Morgan’s but still service them and Simon, the mechanic, is quite knowledgeable.
After determining that there was adequate fuel pressure, he found zero compression on the suspect cylinder. I should probably buy a compression gauge.
Tear down and diagnosis to follow.
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Hopefully, it's nothing worse than a broken valve spring.
Compression readings on these are weird due to the easy start cams. Mine only reads about 60 psi cold while cranking.
Last edited by JFP; 12/12/17 06:11 PM.
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