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Why so hard to start cold??? 200 84

posted by  someone claiming to be Keith Hendrickson on  Mon Feb 12 16:11 CST 2001 [RELATED]

My 84 245 has become very hard to start when cold. Cranks over fine, but only fires on one cylinder---so hard it almost seems like it's out of time. Seems like it's firing on one cylinder and the others are getting flooded. Obvious smell of gas. Once it starts, it will run very rough until it clears itself, then purrs like a kitten as usual. Subsequent restarts are just fine.

The problem showed up Saturday morning on a trip to northern Minnesota--at first I blamed it on the 20-below temperature,although that had not bothered this car before. Was about 10-below Sunday morning, and we had to resort to dragging the car around behind the truck before it would finally start. This morning, back home in tropical southern Minnesota, it was a fight to get it running at 25 above.

I haven't pulled the plugs yet, but plugs, cap, and rotor are not very old. Cap and rotor looked fine when I looked in there this morning.

Been there?? Ideas??

Keith





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