# Someone Help!!! Please!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** SON240sx Automotive\ **Created:** [May 2, 2008, 10:16pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/someone-help-please/115177 "2008-05-02T22:16:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 17
**Author:** ![ARC240](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d26b3c/32.png) [@ARC240](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ARC240)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2008, 1:41pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/someone-help-please/115177/17 "2008-05-03T13:41:22Z")
> [@News from a friend in Iraq](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/news-from-a-friend-in-iraq/16844/3): > > Hey man, don’t get scared. The problem doesn’t sound like it’s anything major. First of all, what engine do you have sitting in the car? Second, check for a spark: remove the sparkplugs one by one, keep each plug connected to the wire and touch the tip of the plug to a bare metal surface while you have someone cranking the engine over for you. If you see that there IS an arc (electrical charge) being emitted from the sparkplug, then this is not your problem. If you do not see a spark, or if you see a very weak, inconsistent spark, you may be looking at distributor problems (on a KA) or either bad coilpacks OR ignitor chip (on an RB or SR). However, if the plugs are fine and are emitting spark as they should, I’d look at another thing. When fuel injectors get stuck open, they will just pour a constant amount of fuel into the cylinder, injectors dont just get stuck all at once, they progress in severity. So, when you said that your fuel mixture was getting more and more rich, I think that was a sign of the injectors being stuck open for too long which lead to your problem now, where they’re always stuck open. What the injectors are doing right now is pouring too much fuel into your cylinder, therefore flooding the engine, resulting in an extremely poor air/fuel mixture causing it not to start. I’ve had things like this happen to me in the past, injector sticks, exhaust smells like pure gasoline, car runs like absolute crap for the time being, shut car off, wont start as a result of engine being flooded. Test your sparkplugs first to see if that could be the problem, let me know what happens and we’ll take it from there. > Good luck, > Mark 😃 Read my post ^! That’s why you’re seeing gas fly out of the hole! Injector is stuck open and throwing too much fuel into the cylinder. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/someone-help-please/115177)._