5KCSQ dies & wont restart for a few minutes

[Doyt W. Echelberger]

When my 87 5ktq acted that way, I replaced the oxygen sensor and the
problems stopped. That was two years ago.

Doyt Echelberger
Ohio  USA

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At 07:10 AM 7/15/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>My 5KCSQ is still doing its weird thing:
>
>The car starts a little hard in the morning, but always starts with a
>little extra gas.  Once it starts it idles ok for a few seconds and then
>the idle starts to get lower, and lower, and lower and you have to
>heel-toe whenenver you put the clutch in and come to a stop to keep
>the car alive.  Once the car is warm, it'll idle OK if you don't let the
>RPM's drop on their own.  You can slowly bring the car down to idle
>and it will idle fine...albeit a little rough.  Before this weekend, if
>the
>car died, it would restart after a couple of seconds if you let it just
>sit.
>However, now, if the car DOES die, it is _extremely_ hard to get
>restarted.  At a bare minimum, you have to wait about two to four
>minutes before it will allow you to restart it.  If you try too soon, you
>just have to wait another couple of minutes.  It leads to some fun
>situations at stoplights.
>
>Anyone know what this is?  Could it be caused by a bad plug wire?
>I've got at least one plug wire that is suspect.
>
>-Pat