Often the cold start valve is "hot-wired" because of a bad accumulater with the accompaning hard-hot-start symptoms. A bad CPR generally just makes the motor run bad till it warms up and maybe a little hard to start. Using the cold start valve for a bad CPR won't get you much. If you do have a car with the cold start valve hot-wired then either the accumulater is bad or it was and was changed. David Teitelbaum vin 10757 --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Greg Zapf <x86Daddy@xxxx> wrote: > Yes, the "choke" function introduced by the PO was a mis-use of the > cold start valve because they didn't know the CPR was responsible for > this functionality and was clogged up. They basically replaced the > normal electrical connection to the cold start valve with a new one > wired to a momentary push button, which needed to be held and then > pulsed and finally released after 10 seconds or so to accomplish a > cold start... After unclogging the CPR, I restored the normal > To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: dmcnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/