From: "Steve Rubano" <srubano@xxxx>
Reply-To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxx
To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [DML] Re: Hot Start Problem
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 16:01:20 -0000
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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