[tcb] Re: Why Do You Suppose My Bus Suddenly Hates Starting in the Morning?
- From: Justin Wilt <sunbugone@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 07:35:51 -0600
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:
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> 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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