[s-cars] Intermittent hard start

[Jack Gagnon]

Steven,

Have you looked for fuel leaks?

The system can loose pressure overnight if there is a tiny leak making for
longer cranking times.  I had the same symptoms but was able to find the
problem quickly due to the fuel smell.  It is common for the fuel lines to
corrode at the rubber support points.

Jack

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Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 8:42 AM
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Subject: [s-cars] Intermittent hard start


Fellow listers...

The patient is a 95.5 S6 avant with 140k miles.  The vast majority of the
time, the car will start within a half dozen motor rotations.  Over the past
few months, every once and awhile, it would take several seconds of cranking
to start, most notably after it had been sitting overnight.  It has never
not started, but it is getting worse and happening more often as time
passes.  Now before you all jump on the fuel pump, it was replaced with the
fuel tank about 15 months ago at 115K.  Not to say that it isn't possible it
is failing, but I would tend to look somewhere else first.  It almost seems
like it loses it's prime like a water pump.  Is it possible that the fuel
pressure bleeds off somehow?  Just trying to fix this before I get stuck
somewhere.  Any collective wisdom is appreciated.  TIA

Regards,

				TRANE
Steven Young
Local Operations Manager
Albany Office
*  Tel. (518) 724-1453
* Fax (518) 785-4359
* sryoung at trane.com

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