Spitzfiya

How do I drain the fuel line in a 1987 GTA 350 TPI 5.7L? I need to purge old stinky fuel out of the lines

Spitzfiya

hmmm anyone? what hose do i dissconect and from where to drain the gas from the lines??

mxcrazed

What are you trying to accomplish by doing this? we should be able to help better then.

Spitzfiya

umm trying to get it started lol

IROCWPB

If you follow the tubes coming from your fuel rails they kinda turn down in front of your engine, and there's some connections there, you can un-hook those and maybe drain the fuel out of the lines like that.

afremont

To flush mine out, I disconnected the return line at the tank (behind driver's rear wheel). I pushed a rubber hose onto the metal line and put the loose end in a container to catch the fuel. I then turned the key on and off a few times to flush it out (actually I used the fuel-pump priming connection to make it run). Flushed it till clean gas came out.

My car had sat for about 6 years and some really ugly looking stuff came out of the return line at first.

Spitzfiya

What EXACTLY did you do to get your car that has been sitting for 6 years running? make a list or something man... I would really love to know since im in the exact situation and dont know what to do lol

afremont

I didn't do the right thing. I should have put some oil in the cylinders, but I didn't. I drained the tank and put in some new fuel. I did crank the motor til oil pressure came up before trying to fire it though. Of course it wouldn't start, but it would fire on starting fluid so it seemed I had a fuel problem. That's when I found that I didn't have enough fuel pressure.

After that, I determined how sad my fuel tank and pump situation really was. Had I any idea, I wouldn't even have turned the key on. I pulled my tank and put a new one in, along with a new filter, pump and sending unit. I put five gallons of new fuel in and a can of seafoam. This is where I flushed the fuel system out til clean fuel came out the return line.

I then cranked it up and it started, that's when I discovered that I needed a new A.I.R. pump. After fixing that, I started it again and lightly tapped the sticking injectors till all were ticking and the engine smoothed out. Since then it's been running nicely.

Spitzfiya

I'm going to check the fuel pressure tonight and replace the thermostat...I would like to know how you start a car with starting fluid cause i DEF want to try that.

Thanks man

zapskate

i had an old 1980 chevy monza that had sat for 15 years and had a 4 cyl engine and we put a new battery in filled up the tires and Poured some gas down the carburetor and cranked it and after about fifteen minutes we decided to jump start it plus the new battery and it started after a couple of cranks. it was awesome! haha but before i could drive it more than a mile of course i had to replace the tires, belts, clutch cable, flush the fuel lines, replace all filters and fluids. so just to get it started is fairly easy if you know how but getting it running well and then driving is a lot more work! hope this helped might want to check the starter too!