Hard to start after driving
01-19-2008, 02:36 PM
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Hard to start after driving My friends car is doing this. I have searched because the questions seems rather simple, but as all ways, the threads that I "need" keep coming up invalid...
Anyways, symptoms are as follows: The car will fire up just fine right away, but after it reaches operating temp, we have to wait all most 30 minutes or more for it to start, It will crank over and over and over and over to start, and when it does, it billows black smoke and smells of fuel for a second or two.
I know it is a spark issue, and obviously not fuel problem, because we can push start it just fine when it give us this problem. What would cause the car to do this at operating temp??? It isnt throwing any codes either.
Anyways, symptoms are as follows: The car will fire up just fine right away, but after it reaches operating temp, we have to wait all most 30 minutes or more for it to start, It will crank over and over and over and over to start, and when it does, it billows black smoke and smells of fuel for a second or two.
I know it is a spark issue, and obviously not fuel problem, because we can push start it just fine when it give us this problem. What would cause the car to do this at operating temp??? It isnt throwing any codes either.
01-24-2008, 10:57 PM
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Try holding the throttle to the floor with the hot start. If that helps you have an injector thats leaking and flooding the engine. It starts cold because the gas has time to evaporate. My Vette did this and it was a bad injector. New injectors cured it.
