Re: Hot Start Problem

["Steve Rubano" <srubano@xxxx>]

If you let the car sit over night and you go to start it, does it 
take long for it to start also? If you may be losing fuel pressure 
somewhere.

I would suspect the fuel accumulator. 

--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxx, Gregory M Scalia <gmscalia@xxxx> wrote:
> I had this. To the point where I would flatten the battery. 
Eventually a wise old Volvo mechanic told me that this was a problem 
with the leaking injectors. We replaced all these and the problem is 
a lot better...although not perfect.
> 
> ----------
> From: Stian Birkeland[SMTP:dmc_norway@xxxx]
> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 7:28 AM
> To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [DML] Hot Start Problem
> 
> 
> Hello all,
> I recently installed a new fuel pump. The car has run fine the last 
week, 
> but does have a strange hot start problem.
> 
> If I drive to town, the engine warm, then park and shut off the 
engine for 
> 5-6 minutes, then the car starts right up as it should!
> 
> Then, if I drive to town, the engine warm, then park and shut off 
the engine 
> for 10 minutes + , then the car is very hard to start. I have to 
crank it at 
> least 3 or 4 times before it fires up!
> 
> Does anyone have any idea to what causes this?
> 
> I would guess that if I really had a serious hot start problem 
(fuel 
> accumulator problem), then it wouldn't even start when I parked on 
short 
> times or start at all. Point is, eventually I do get it started its 
just 
> very slow. I thinking of fuel pressure. Ideas anyone? Since the 
fuel pump is 
> new, I also doubt that it can be a leaking check valve.
> 
> Best wishes
> Stian Birkeland
> Norway
> 
> VIN # 06759
> 
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