Flooding?

My wife's 99 malibu has cranked and ran flawlessly for six years. I went to the store in it tonight and all was well. When I tried to restart it, it acted just as though it was flooded (no I never put my foot on the accelerator for injected engines.) After sitting a few minutes it almost started then acted the same way. I walked home (about 1.5 miles) and came back after it an hour later. It cranked normally and did so again later. I'm going to crawl around in the engine bay tomorrow but was wondering if anybody has had an episode of a small injected engine flooding out.

What makes u think that it was flooded? Are u sure it isn't a problem, with the TheftLock?

What makes u think that it was flooded? Are u sure it isn't a problem, with the TheftLock?

The engine behaved exactly like a carbuerated engine does when flooding. It was turning over as normal and was firing some when you initially began turning it over then stopped firing. If I held the accelerator down and turned it over it was firing some intermittantly while turning over but not enough to crank (I could feel the car giving a shudder when the engine would fire and sometimes the starter would momentarily disengage as the engine began to start but didn't.) After sitting for 5 minutes the engine came closer to cranking but still failed to. An hour later it started as always. I know it is probably not flooding, but it's behaviour is identical to it. I'll just have to see if there are any repeat performances.

Pull the vacuum hose of the fuel press. regulator see if you see or smell gas in the hose.

For now, it is starting and running perfectly fine again. It'll probably wait until the wife and kids are gone shopping before it happens again. Until then, everything appears normal (fuel pump is pumping gas just fine.)