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Re: Hot Start Problem



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
> 
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