Yes, you probably have a bad accumulator. The quick hot start fix is to unplug the blue connector from the cold start valve and the gray connector from the control pressure regulator. Then plug the gray plug into the cold start valve. The car should start. Once the car is running, put the connectors back. Yes, the Yahoo archive search engine is absolutely WORTHLESS It only searches in about the last 2 weeks of posts and hardly ever returns anything useful. Go to http://www.dmcnews.com/search.html and use the Google search engine. Works a 1,000 times better. John Yeoman --- In dmcnews@xxxx, "content22207" <brobertson@xxxx> wrote: > #5939 is now in Virginia, halfway to new home in North Carolina. > > We'll take these questions one at a time ... > (Apologies for re-asking a question that's been addressed 100,000 > times but I can't get Yahoo's "Search Archive" feature to work). > > Question #1: Hot Starting (bad accumulator?) > > Car has stock Bosch fuel injection. Runs fine. Starts cold. Problem: > won't restart hot. Am currently using ether (sorry guys, but it's the > only way to get out of the parking lot). Suspect it's a bad fuel > accumulator. Have located colored electrical connectors on firewall, > but can't remember which colors to switch. What is temporary hot start > fix AGAIN? > > BTW: have no documentation on car yet (will be part of that big > initial parts purchase) -- where exactly is fuel accumulator located? > > Have beaucoups of other questions, but we'll "start" with just this > one (humor) ... > > Bill Robertson > North Carolina > #5939