David. Go do one.

In your first post here, you said it was cranking but not starting.

In your second post, you now say, having ignored the suggestions given to you, it does sometimes start. "simple as that" - obviously not, if you don't give us any information to go on. We're trying to help YOU with YOUR problem with only what you give us to go on.

And to then slag us off for our efforts? Thanks, you arrogant tool.

Why do you insist it is in the battery, when its clearly cranking at speed with no trouble? Have you even confirmed whether you have spark or fuel pressure yet? If you don't have a clue, don't piss others off for YOUR shortcomings.

If by a pack of wolves you mean by lots of suggestions, then you're right but you aren't getting any more help on.net either. We aren't psychic, you have it in front of you, we don't. From your video, you do not have a sync problem, there is nothing wrong with the battery, it just isn't firing, although you now say that it has run? To me that points to one of two things. Crank Position Sensor, although I can't see that just dying because it can. It can fail but if the connection to it has got water in it somehow, it needs unplugging, squirting with contact cleaner and plugging back in or, the fuel pump. You've been told, check for fuel pressure, have you done that?

One though has come to mind though. Was it running before it was shipped to you? How did it overheat if it won't run? You aren't giving anyone the full story but are buggering about with things that aren't relevant so all you are doing is pissing in the wind and we're just helping you to do just that.

Fuel gauge pointing to full, unless the level sender is broken... who filled the tank and when? The fuel pressure test would would prove/disprove lack of fuel as the problem anyway.

romanrob wrote:

Gents - in the vid the rev counter registers nothing even though the engine cranks - should it?

What does yours do? I don't have anything to compare with thats close enough, but your Gems looks like a good match to his. I would expect the crank sensor is whats used to drive that, so you might be on to something there, but need to know what a working one does to tell for sure.

Unfortunately my injectors are off for cleaning at the moment...along with plenum/ trumpets

It would seem that our Honolulu friend has gone dark?
Ironically, I was sitting within probably 10 miles of said Rangie whilst transiting from Honolulu to Kona.
Even had the nano in my pack.
I really wish could have laid my hands on this one to see just what was up! With only an hour layover, that, alas was not in the cards.
The good news is I saw no evidence of fireballs, pillers of smoke etc.........With luck, he is checking fuel pressure and will get back to us.

I don't recall seeing any activity from the rev counter during cranking on my GEMS, and I know it's how I used to check for electrical issues on my old CX with the ignition pack - you'd see the needle kick on every compression. So I feel like I'd have noticed. I'll actually check later on though.

Fuel tank is full - with what, is the fuel any good?

If the crank position sensor has water in the plug or is on the way out it'll give all sorts of weird "crank, no start", "crank, start, won't rev" kind of faults, often intermittently.