[tcb] Re: Why Do You Suppose My Bus Suddenly Hates Starting in the Morning?
- From: "chuck" <sukchew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 07:57:39 -0600
The bentley will be a big help.Repairing your fuel injection system is a lot
easier than installing carbs.
oleblue
----- Original Message -----
From: kelly dosch
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 7:11 AM
Subject: [tcb] Re: Why Do You Suppose My Bus Suddenly Hates Starting in the
Morning?
I'll be sure and look all that up as soon as I find my Bentley
manual.
--- On Tue, 1/18/11, chuck <sukchew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: chuck <sukchew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [tcb] Re: Why Do You Suppose My Bus Suddenly Hates Starting
in the Morning?
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tuesday, January 18, 2011, 7:22 AM
No carbs, fix you fueler.It is a much more efficent system than
carbs.Carbs have problems too.get the manuel and study it.Especialy the cold
start section.
The cold start problems are usually associated with the left handed
zipnglizry.It will only be actvated when the gorotious alnatonor beads are
correctorfied.
oleblue
----- Original Message -----
From: kelly dosch
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 10:39 PM
Subject: [tcb] Re: Why Do You Suppose My Bus Suddenly Hates
Starting in the Morning?
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
--
Justin Wilt
Technician
Post Oak Motorcars
Rolls Royce Motorcars Houston
Bentley Houston
1530 West Loop South
Houston TX 77095 USA
+1-713-850-1530
+1-713-539-4419
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