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wet-starting 120-130

posted by  someone claiming to be Rick on  Sun Nov 17 22:25 CST 2002 [RELATED]

I used to have a problem wet-starting but new points and leads improved this. At the same time the car was tuned and now the first 5-10 minutes of driving on wet days is dreadful, both with choke or without.

Symptoms: you slowly release the clutch, press the accelerator and it just goes 'thunk' and loses all power, so you ease the clutch back and rev a bit and it's better. It does this on every junction and of course it's worse on hills. If you don't ease the clutch at all and try to force it through with acceleration it backfires.

Can I solve this problem with some simple adjustments myself or should I go back to the tuning guy (don't want to)? I know it's an old car and in the best of all worlds would like to warm up first, but sometimes you just want to get going. Thanks for all advice.

Rick






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New wet-starting [120-130]
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    posted by  Ron Kwas  on Mon Nov 18 01:33 CST 2002 >
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      posted by  someone claiming to be Rick  on Mon Nov 18 21:38 CST 2002 >
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        posted by  someone claiming to be ikiller  on Tue Nov 19 05:17 CST 2002 >
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    posted by  walrus3 subscriber  on Mon Nov 18 03:11 CST 2002 >


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