If you let the car sit over night and you go to start it, does it take long for it to start also? If you may be losing fuel pressure somewhere. I would suspect the fuel accumulator. --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxx, Gregory M Scalia <gmscalia@xxxx> wrote: > I had this. To the point where I would flatten the battery. Eventually a wise old Volvo mechanic told me that this was a problem with the leaking injectors. We replaced all these and the problem is a lot better...although not perfect. > > ---------- > From: Stian Birkeland[SMTP:dmc_norway@xxxx] > Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 7:28 AM > To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [DML] Hot Start Problem > > > Hello all, > I recently installed a new fuel pump. The car has run fine the last week, > but does have a strange hot start problem. > > If I drive to town, the engine warm, then park and shut off the engine for > 5-6 minutes, then the car starts right up as it should! > > Then, if I drive to town, the engine warm, then park and shut off the engine > for 10 minutes + , then the car is very hard to start. I have to crank it at > least 3 or 4 times before it fires up! > > Does anyone have any idea to what causes this? > > I would guess that if I really had a serious hot start problem (fuel > accumulator problem), then it wouldn't even start when I parked on short > times or start at all. Point is, eventually I do get it started its just > very slow. I thinking of fuel pressure. Ideas anyone? Since the fuel pump is > new, I also doubt that it can be a leaking check valve. > > Best wishes > Stian Birkeland > Norway > > VIN # 06759 > ______________________________________________________________________ ___ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at > http://profiles.msn.com. > > > > Before posting messages or replies, see the posting policy rules at: > www.dmcnews.com/Admin/rules.html > > To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: > moderator@xxxx > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]