03 1.8l sentra gxe and the cold

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dougm72
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Car: 98 chevy 1500 8in lift on 35s
2003 sentra 1.8L

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hello this my first post here. me feince bought a 03 sentra last november in 09 it has ran fine never gave her any issues sept for it takeing to try to start it sometimes not a huge deal right. well she went to start it tuesday moring last week and it wouldent fire the moter rocks its got fuel u can smell it bad and it has spark becuase it is tryinging it willl just igniter a little amount of fuel and. it seems fluded almost iv tried starting fluid. yes iv checked the tail pipe. i drive a big 98 chevy 1500 8in lift on 35s and i got snow cloged up my exhaust tips first thing i checked if it could happen to me it could happen to her. i got ti firedf that day after 4 hours i took a little eletric heater to the fuel pump took out the seat anfd placed it there. it took a long time but it finaly fired and a huge amount of smoke came out the tail pipe witch smelled of gas horrabley witch i thought well she was flooded but how. now if i pull the fuel pump fues it will try to start then die. i am completly stumped. i need tog et ti fixed becuase my truck is in for a engine rebuild and need to get her car up and going. thanks so much for any responses

doug

also happy holidays to everyone

edit: i also for got to add she went in a corn feild this summer to miss a deer it riped off alot of plastic under the car and on the rear driver side next to the tire is a big plastic caseing that got ripped and to me it looked like fuel lines so i zipped tied it back on for a time being but it just pulled it down and ice was just caked on the hoese that is iun there its confuseing. could her fuel lines be frozen? i have added the stp additve also her oil could be over 3k i cant remember she never lets me get aroud her car shes always on the move could old oil be the case?


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Welcome to NICO!!!
I'm having a little trouble understanding exactly everything you're saying, your typing is a little off, but I'll try and piece it together.

Did it flood out just once, or does it do it fairly often? Pull the oil dipstick and smell the oil. If it smells like gasoline, you need to change it immediately. Gas will ruin the lubrication of oil when it gets mixed with it.
Try and hold the gas pedal to the floor when cranking to "blow out" the fuel that is in the cylinders. Keeping your foot down will let more air into the engine, which should help keep the air/fuel ratios a little more in check.
The only thing I can really think of would be 1: The ECU somehow went bad (seems unlikely), or 2: The coolant temp sensor is telling the ECU to dump fuel.

dougm72
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Joined: Sat Dec 25, 2010 10:12 am
Car: 98 chevy 1500 8in lift on 35s
2003 sentra 1.8L

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idk what happend i went outside and try and crank it this morning around 9:30-10am it fired right up i had to blow thw gas out nothing but white smoke and smell of gas came out the tail pipe . last night when i went to check for fuel pressure( the little green cap it say evap something) it didnt let gas or air. could fuel pump be failing. and how do i check the colent temp sensor


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