Sentences with phrase «rich fuel mixture»

Slap on the rich fuel mixture and run with it for too long and you'll find your car stuttering towards the end of the race, barely able to accelerate out of the corners.

I only changed oil, tires and brakes on that one but the engine light started coming on (rich fuel mixture) and the transmission started doing it's goofiness at about 120,000 miles.

Think about an engine with a too rich fuel mixture.

Not exact matches

«The typical Mexico City car is a Volkswagen beetle several years old, running on a very rich air - fuel mixture of 8:1 in order to develop adequate power at the city's altitude of 2400 metres,» says Stephen Bryen of Lean Power Corporation of Silver Spring.

When its cold the fuel injectors are commanded to inject extra fuel, and your cars idle speed control valve is commanded to increase idle speed to prevent the engine stalling from a now richer mixture.

Jim theorizes that low coolant caused portions of the engine to get too hot, so the temperature sensing computer thought it was very cold outside, and made the fuel - air mixture too rich (less air).

If the fuel mixture is lean, there are lots of oxygen - rich compounds but little carbon - rich compounds.

@MeltingDog, if by flooding you mean that the air - fuel mixture is too rich for ignition to take place then yes, that is the hypothesis.

This tells me that the cold - start enrichment, where the air - fuel mixture entering the cylinders is slightly rich, isn't taking place.

The probe then tends to report lean mixture, the ECU enriches the mixture, the exhaust gets rich with carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons, and the fuel economy worsens

The black smoke may be from the unburned fuel drawn thru the carb causing a rich mixture on restart.

High (CO) is the result of one problem, a rich air / fuel mixture but may have several causes.

If the air filter is clogged enough, the resultant air - fuel mixture could be too rich for fuel management to rectify, resulting in sputtering / stalling.

Even though the updated engine configuration uses richer air - fuel mixtures and more spark advance, Volvo says the C70's fuel economy ratings of 19/28 mpg (city / highway) are unchanged.

The Colortune isn't to determine the color of the spark, but for the color of the combustion itself, which is useful for tuning fuel / timing (leaner mixtures will be bluer in color, where richer mixtures are redder.

A higher percentage of fuel to air is described as a rich mixture, while a lower percentage of fuel to air is termed a lean mixture

The stratified charge puts a mixture that's richer near the spark plug for easy ignition, while other areas on the combustion chamber have a leaner fuel / air ratio.

Wide - band lambda sensor analyzes the air - fuel ratio and adjusts the lean / rich mixture accordingly to keep the system in balance and to minimize emissions.

A particularly rich and therefore ignitable fuel / air mixture is therefore available only in the direct vicinity of the spark plug.