[DML] Re: Back to life..maybe

["Welmoed" <welmoedj@xxxxxxxxx>]

Could be a rich/very rich mixture and/or the known hot start problem (assuming that your "short period of time" means "fully warmed-up".
Smell the exhaust gas: if you smell unburnt fuel it's too rich. Lean it out a bit. If you didn't change the accumulator, that also could be the base of the starting problem after warm-up.

Welmoed.


--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "randybell" <randybell@...> wrote:
>
> I'm the original owner of an 81 DMC.  I stopped driving the car in 1987 with
> 12,200 miles and parked it in my garage. I have been working on getting it
> started again for the past few months by having the gas tank and fuel lines
> cleaned.  I have replaced the fuel pump, fuel regulator and some of the
> sensors.
>  
> The car now starts fine when the engine is cold but doesn't after it has run a short period of time.  I noticed last night that the catalytic converter glows red hot after a few minutes of running.  I know they run hot, but not cherry red.  The O-2 sensor is close and might be affected by this. I don't know if that would cause my restart problem or not.
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>




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