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starting issues
You may have some seriously leaky injectors. The system can't build
pressure if the injectors keep dribbling. If it starts quickly cold, then
the CSV is leaking. Once its warm, its flooded all the time. (Does that
make sense? Its late, I'm tired).
John
Long Beach
At 10:49 PM 9/4/2002 -0400, The Hitman wrote:
>i just sent my red '88 in to be painted, so i forced to drive my '86 for a
>few days. i took it out and it stuttered bad, with the main fuel pump make
>a loud whining noise. i replaced the tank pump (or in this case, hunk of
>rust), and the stuttering problem and whine is gone. while i was at it i
>changed plugs and wires and air filter. now the car doesn't want to start.
>it takes 5 start- stall- starts to get it going. after this it runs fine.
>i'm going to replace the fuel filter just cause of what the tank pump
>looked like, but are there any other things i should look at for this
>starting problem? 5th injector maybe? tia
> hit