[DMCForum] Re: Do Fuel Accumulators just Die overnight?? I'm confused here..

["Joe OBrien" <joeyoseppijoe@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm gonna say it is origonal Dave. How much play does that have in 
my scenario, as I'll ask, what all does the thermo time switch do?

Joe


--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Dave Stragand" 
<dave.stragand@xxxx> wrote:
> How's the thermo time switch?  New?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe OBrien [mailto:joeyoseppijoe@xxxx] 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 10:02 PM
> To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [DMCForum] Do Fuel Accumulators just Die overnight?? I'm 
confused
> here..
> 
> 
> Or do they gradually start to die? All the ones I have dealt with 
> seem to just not allow the car to start when hot.
> 
> The problem is that I think mine might be starting to die... maybe.
> 
> I start the car up fine allow it to reach operating temperature 
> allow the fans to cycle once or twice, then shut it off. Car still 
> startgs fine after it is fully warmed, can shut it off and start 
it 
> over & over when hot.
> 
> If I allow it to cool for say 4 or 5 hours and it is still luke 
> warmish it won't start unless I crank on it or give it a shot of 
> ether. After it starts it has a roughb backfire and a miss when I 
> give it gas hard.
> 
> Never before has it done this, and the fuel accumulator is the one 
> fuel item I have never replaced. I just finished replacing the 
warm-
> up regulator and all 6 injectors with new ones. And had the idle 
> properly set.
> 
> Could this rough start when luke warmish cold be a faulty warm-up 
> regulator. Under accelleration once re-warmed up there is NO 
problem 
> at all. Car runs better than it ever has. So it couldn't be the 
> injectors as there is no problem once properly warmed. Car is dead 
> on 13 degrees timing, every fuel component besides accumulator has 
> been replaced, but since it will still start when hot it doesn't 
> give me the standard impression that it is the fuel accumulator. 
> Like the CPR doesn't want to work the second time it has to warm 
the 
> engine up. 
> 
> I still have my old CPR which I haven't mailed back yet for the 
core 
> and was about to swap it out and see if there was a difference, 
but 
> since the engine was hot & so were the exhaust manifolds I thought 
> I'd let my temper cool as well as the manifolds and post a message 
> here for anyone to possibly give me a word of advice. I spent the 
> last hour sifting through the archives to try to find a similar 
> issue, but couldn't as I try to limit my common questions by using 
> the archives. Car has just over 11,000 miles on it presently as 
well.
> 
> Sorry for the length, but I tried to include as much as I could 
> think of to help me get a good answer.
> 
> So to recap, car starts fine cold & hot, starts hard or not at all 
> when luke warmish or cooled, runs like crap till re-warmed. Car 
will 
> start fine the next day after allowed to fully cool down. This all 
> happened after I tried to start it after I allowed it to cool 
after 
> installing a new CPR & injectors, and having the idle adjusted. I 
> just wonder if it is the accumulator or the CPR is faulty, since 
it 
> will start when hot 99% of the time. And until the new CPR I never 
> had a hot start, or luke warmish problem.
> 
> If anyone has a clue, or a bit of advice, I would most appreciate 
> it, as this is extremely frustrating to get the car running 
> perfectly, then have it crap out on you worse than it was before 
you 
> sunk several hundred into it.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Joe O'Brien
> 
> 2524 & 16634
> 
> 
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