89 90q hot start, running rich

Vincent Gelinas vrgelinas at gmail.com
Sun Oct 17 18:41:32 PDT 2010


  Hi, y'all!

So I've pretty much figured out that my baby doesn't like to start after 
heat soak.  I'll drive her a mile to the laundromat and it'll start 
right up after I throw my clothes in, but after driving the 15 minutes 
to Wal-Mart and running in for cat food, it takes about 5 minutes of 
keeping the radiator fan on (via a/c button) to get it started again.  
And just like every other warm-start condition, it'll start and stumble 
and misfire, I'll shut it off and give it about 10 seconds, and then 
it'll start right up.  Vroom! I love the sound of that 5-cylinder starting.

Now I'm not sure whether or not this is attributable to running rich, 
but I'll go to give the car more than about 30% throttle and it'll jerk, 
and stall.  No sputtering, just a straight stall.  Especially when hot.  
It makes it very difficult to get onto a freeway, as it takes me about 
30 seconds or more to get to 65-70mph, and I feel sorry for the people 
behind me when I climb a hill, because I have to use a constant throttle 
state and row my gears.  I'll be doing about 20 in a 40 zone at the top 
of one of the hills near my house because I can't just give it more 
go-juice.

Anyway, enough of my rambling.  Hopefully you can understand what I'm 
trying to say.

Thanks in advance for the help,

Vincent


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