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Cold Start Problem

I had hoped that as the weather got warmer my car would be a little easier to start from cold. But the warmth hasn't helped at all.

A wrench I trust told me, after checking and adjusting pressures, that he felt that the WUR was the problem, and that I needed to source a remanufactured one. I looked into that, but during the course of ordering, the tech there at the reman facility told me that the WUR didn't really go to work unless the ambient temperature was quite cold - perhaps as far down the scale as 32 degrees. He said my car's cold-start problem likely was the result of a bad fuel distributor. He said a diaphram inside that gets pinholes in it, leading to cold-start problems.

I should note that once it is warm, the engine leaps into life and runs fine - though its fuel economy is quite poor.

So now I'm baffled. I do not wish to continue throwing money at the thing by trying solutions that may work, or may not work. But I would like to solve the problem.

Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.
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