Do injectors squirt fuel with key on
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Do injectors squirt fuel with key on 1999 5.3 pcm on a 2004 lm7 in a 1992 chevy truck. The other day I was working on my truck and I turned the key off and on a bunch and I hydro locked the engine with fuel. Lucky I didn't do any damage. I thought I had a leaking injector so pulled the rail off and turned pump on and there were no leaks. I was thinking every time i turned the key on the injectors added some start up fuel. Am I correct?
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Fuel injectors will only squirt fuel when the engine is cranking or running. The computer looks at the crank sensor and cam sensor (if you have one) to spray fuel at correct time in correct cylinder. If your engine locked up from fuel in one cylinder then you have a leaking injector. If multiple cylinders had excessive fuel in them then you have a different problem.
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I checked none of my injectors leaked with pressure on them for over an hour. I had the rail out with fuel line connected in a tub and not one drop of fuel came out. Since you said it will only squirt fuel while cranking i must have another problem. Maybe pcm has a problem or a wiring problem.
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You only did I checked none of my injectors leaked with pressure on them for over an hour. I had the rail out with fuel line connected in a tub and not one drop of fuel came out. Since you said it will only squirt fuel while cranking i must have another problem. Maybe pcm has a problem or a wiring problem.
The other part = What happens when they have the harness hooked up, and power applied?
Did you check them w/ a VOM, to see what the coils are doing?
Check the harness for gnd side shorts?
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So i did a test today with my meter key on and every injector had 12v on power to ground which is correct. Then i checked each injector plug and they all had 5v. I thought they should of zero with key on not running?
