[tcb] Re: Why Do You Suppose My Bus Suddenly Hates Starting in the Morning?
- From: kelly dosch <kellydosch@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 20:39:31 -0800 (PST)
Oh tell me about it. I was so tempted to slap a carb on this thing when I got
it.
--- On Mon, 1/17/11, Denis Dodson <coocoo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Denis Dodson <coocoo@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [tcb] Re: Why Do You Suppose My Bus Suddenly Hates Starting in the
Morning?
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Monday, January 17, 2011, 9:49 AM
Ya know, I did pretty good with Fred’s points answer and, feeling confident, I
read about Kelly’s problem until it got into fuel injectors and thermo time
switch. It might as well be about subflappable gindoos and adjustable gorotious
alnatonor beads. Chuck says Murray is a tractor, and I love it that way.
From: tcb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tcb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Justin Wilt
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 7:36 AM
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [tcb] Re: Why Do You Suppose My Bus Suddenly Hates Starting in the
Morning? I could be wrong but it sounds like you may have a problem with the
cold start injector or thermo time switch. The F.I engines are notorious for
bad cylinder head temp sensors as well. I would try shooting some starting
fluid in the air cleaner when the engine is cold. If it starts right up and
dies then lack of fuel is your problem. On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 2:20 AM,
kelly dosch <kellydosch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It's a 1979 Campmobile Deluxe, (2.0L?) F.I.. I just got it and am not positive
what engine it is but it is all original if that helps. It only has 74,000
miles on it. It was just rebuilt about 600 miles ago at a VW dealership in
Austin. The work was done with love by friends of mine and they really gave it
the royal treatment, sparing no expense.
It ran like a top until about 2.5 weeks ago. It just kept getting harder and
harder to start in the morning. Now It takes no less than about ten minutes to
start. I turn the key about 20 times, feeling my ulcer grow as my starter
slowly burns up.
It just goes whir-whir-whir- plubba-plubba-start-PSYCH! Stall. And I crank it
again and again and again. Each time it gets closer and closer to starting and
running until it finally fires up. I then have to keep it revved a bit for a
while or it will stall.
Once it is warmed up it runs like a Swiss watch. I can drive it to the
grocery store and when I get out it will fire right up because it is still
warm. And it seems like, when it won't start in the morning, that I am just
warming up the engine by cranking the starter for twenty minutes and that is
why it finally goes.
I can't blame the cooler temps we have been having lately because I have
started it on cold days before and it fired right up.
It is a brand new VW battery, basically brand new everything! I even
disconnected the battery and charged it, hooked it back up and it made no
difference. Just making sure it wasn't the battery.
Then one day I put a heat lamp on the engine for a few hours to rule out the
possibility of it just not wanting to start on cold days. No change.
Then I put a bottle of fuel dry in it in case I had water in the lines. That
was yesterday and I think it did start just a bit easier today, but I have
driven it 100 miles with this additive. I think that should have simply fixed
it or not by now, no?
I just don't get it. Almost everything on the engine is new. Besides the
engine itself. Which was rebuilt at the holiest of VW sources,(the VW
dealership- and they do not play) and it had low miles to start with.
I think the key to this mystery is the fact that it fires right up every time
as long as it is warm, but a cold morning start is hell on the starter and
battery.
And remember, just a couple weeks ago it started just fine on cold 30* days.
Any thoughts?
Thank you so much for your time. Kelly
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Justin Wilt
Technician
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Rolls Royce Motorcars Houston
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Houston TX 77095 USA
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