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Originally Posted by 5String43
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.......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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I have similar troubles, and seems to get worse as the weather gets warmer. Car runs great once it's started. The short answer (and I'm regurgitating something I've still not gotten around to myself) is you need a set of pressure gauges to tell you where it's loosing cold pressure from if you don't want to keep trying a part here and part there.
FWIW......I happened to be at a car show a few weeks ago, ready to leave, did my typical crank her half a dozen times before she'd idle routine, the much revered guru that has been putting together the "found 30 years later" car walked over and told me precisely what that tech told you. Said I either have a bad accumulator or pinholes in the diaphram...... Now he said there's a kit w/ that diaphram in it for only a few $.....but I've not gotten that far.
He did tell me if I popped the airbox cover and gave the little mixture arm a little tickle it'd start right up, and X4-5 starts now he was dead on. Why do all the women in my life need to be primed before.........nevermind
