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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