Re: 5KCSTQ:hard starting

[Peter Tracy <pgt@novelmail.keps.com>]

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>> From: quattro-owner
>> To: Randall Paquette
>> Cc: all
>> Subject: Re: 5KCSTQ:hard starting
>> Date: Tuesday, May 02, 1995 8:56AM
>>
>> 
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>> On 1 May 1995, Randall Paquette wrote:
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>> > shut it off after a hot run (hard to avoid here).  It runs up to a few
>> hundred
>> > rpm, then dies.  It can take 10minutes to get the thing running. 
 Otherwise
>> the
>> > car runs great and idles great.
>>
>> Had a similar problem, but not sure if it would be the same here... The
>> banjo connector on my fuel pump leaked... so when I went to start it in
>> the morning, it would pop once, then I had to refill the lines to the
>> fuel distributer, and i had to crank for a LONG time... It bled the lines 

>> all the way back to the pump. It did drip on the ground, but evaporated
>> by morning, so was never a really obvious problem.


I also had a similar problem on my '90 200T. It turns out that the check 
valve for keeping the FI pressurized when the engine was off failed, making 
it hard to start until it got repressurized. I believe that turning the key 
on and off a number of times (without cranking the engine) is the best way 
to pressurize again. Could be wrong about that. Good luck.

Peter