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93 240 hot start issue 200 1993

I have a 93 wagon with auto that starts fine and runs fine with one exception. Sometimes when the engine is warm, it will die after starting. You have to re start it and go to drive numerous times to finally get going. Past idle, it runs fine again. This never happens when the engine is cold. Any ideas as where to look first, or a sequence of steps to take would be appreciated.








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    93 240 hot start issue 200 1993

    In addition to stalling when starting the engine warm does it seem that the idle might be low? If so it would be easy enough to explore the possibility that the throttle body has a build up around the plate effectively reducing the air flow/idle speed.

    Randy
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    Any twenty minute job is just a broken bolt away from a three day ordeal








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      93 240 INTERMITTANT hot start issue 200 1993


      New development; I had been all over and under this car preparing it for a 900 mile trip carrying my daughter and grandkids. Before the trip, she took it on a 400 mile round trip with no issues. Upon returning, I got a call "died in a drive through restuarant, and would not restart." Never happened before. I told her to lift the hood, wait ten minutes, and try again. She CLAIMS she did, but no restart. The next morning, I restarted it, and have been driving it for a month with no issues except a slightly rough idle.
      OH THE JOY OF RESOLVING AN INTERMITTANT ISSUE.








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    93 240 hot start issue 200 1993

    I had a similar problem in the Iowa summers only, especially on hot days. After first trying my backup air mass meter, I tried disconnecting the electrical connection to the Cold Start Injector (plug is under intake manifold - two-prong electrical connector), suspecting that it was running the the engine too rich upon warm start for some unknown reason. Deactivating the cold start injector (by unplugging the electrical connector only) immediately solved the problem.

    So, a person on Brickboard explained that the computer was probably getting inaccurate information from the coolant temperature sensor, and injecting extra fuel unnecessarily at warm start. I then put in a new coolant temperature sensor, plugged back in the cold start injector electrical connector, and everything is now fine. The computer is now getting accurate information about the coolant temperature.

    For my 1991 240 the coolant sensor is:
    Volvo Temperature Sensor - 1346030
    It has a two-prong electrical connection.

    Both the cold start injector and coolant sensor are somewhat hard to access underneath the intake manifold. Unplugging the cold start injector electrical connector isn't too difficult, but, my car has EGR (California version 240), so I had to remove the EGR to gain access to the coolant sensor with a deep socket. There are some good videos online regarding the process of changing it out. It's a bit tough but it can be done with the intake manifold in place.

    Your problem might be caused by some other things, but the steps above solved my seemingly similar engine problem.

    Joe








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      93 240 hot start issue 200 1993

      Just a note on this old thread* -- the cold start injector disappeared from the 240 after '91.

      Even so, an open circuit in the engine coolant temperature (ECT) sensor would definitely be one good reason the car would be difficult to start, hot or not. The crusty connector is just as often the cause as is an aged sensor, and it should identify itself with a 123 DTC code from the OBD.

      * this thread was duplicated here https://www.brickboard.com/RWD/volvo/1668536/220/240/260/280/93_240_hot_start_issue.html
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      Art Benstein near Baltimore








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    93 240 hot start issue 200 1993

    You should start by measuring the fuel pressure. The spec is something like 20psi after 20 minutes rest. Numbers not as critical as understanding the rail needs to retain fuel pressure to prevent the heat soak in the engine compartment from pushing all the fuel back toward the tank leaving nothing but vapor in the main pump. Pump can't move vapor.

    There are other possibilities but that's always #1 starting point. Fuel pressure.
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    Art Benstein near Baltimore

    Reassembly is the reverse of disassembly. Except the profanity. You don't take that back; you just keep adding to it.







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