It's Alive!

[greg.rocco at gmail.com (Greg Pallett)]

Don'tcha just love it when it's that easy?
Hope your drive went w/o incident, it's important to have the Scirocco as an
antidote to the daily driver "Scirocco: the cure for the common kia"

GP


On 12/2/06, Nate Lowe <nlowe79@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I posted about a no-start issue a couple weeks ago and finally got around
> to
> doing something about it. Here's how I described the problem initially:
>
> "I stopped for gas, filled up, then tried to start her up to leave. It
> turns
> over and over but will never "catch" and start running. It's been hard to
> start lately, takes a good 5-10 seconds to finally start up. Before
> tonight,
> I could try for 2-3 seconds, turn the key to the "on" position (before it
> started running), wait a second, then turn it to start again and it would
> start much easier the second time. It also started fine whenever it was
> warm. I know the "it just won't start" symptom is vague, but that's all I
> have to go on right now."
>
> Well, most people thought it was spark or fuel related. So I checked spark
> and it's good. While I was trying to get an injector out (those things
> don't
> want to come out do they?) I noticed that a port on my intake manifold
> which
> was previously blocked off was now open. The rubber piece had fallen off
> and
> left about a dime size opening. Once I plugged it up again it cranked over
> and ran well. I still have to investigate the hard starting that had been
> happening, but at least she's running again. Thanks everyone for the help
> and suggestions, time for a drive!
>
> Nate
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