Re: rough starts

From: KARL MOLTZAN (kmoltzan@mymail.net)
Date: Mon Jan 19 1998 - 18:56:46 EST


On Mon, 19 Jan 1998 14:56:12 -0700 Tony Mastres
<mastres@id.ucsb.edu> wrote:

>OK heres on I havent heard of on the list before. My 97
Dak has developed a
>very intermittant starting anomaly ( I don't know what
else to call it )
>Occasionally, about 1 in 20 starts my truck/ignition wont
turn over
>readily. Usually I turn the key for 1 second and it fires
right up but
>sometimes it'll crank for 3-4 seconds with nothing. I
usually let off at
>this point and crank it again, then after another 2-3
seconds it catches
>but just barely. It seems to sputter for 2-3 seconds and
then runs like
>nothing ever happened.
>Go figure. Anybody got any theories on this?

Tony,
 Have you fuel pressure checked.If there is not enough
pressure
it wont start.
 
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