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Date:         Tue, 20 May 2003 17:15:14 -0400
Reply-To:     Edmund Shotwell <edshotwell@NSDSL.COM>
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From:         Edmund Shotwell <edshotwell@NSDSL.COM>
Subject:      Daily First Start Hard
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I have a second problem. Every day the first time I start my 86 GL it is hard to get it to fire. The more moisture in the air the harder it is to get going. But after it does start, I don't have any more hard starts all day. Even after it sits at work for several hours.

What happens the first time each day is I have to crank it for 1 to 3 minutes and then just as I let go of the key it will turn over once. Then I crank it with the gas pedal down and it usually fires up within another minute or so. The rest of the day it starts within 10 seconds. I have made sure everything is plugged in in the engine compartment, and I have replaced the cap and rotor, and the plugs. but still the hard start in the morning. Today I had to give up as it did not start after fifteen minutes of trying.


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