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Hey again BB.
I've been working on my "rescue" 1991 244 for a few months now, slowly doing little improvements. It's come a long way from where it was when I bought it (about to be seized and auctioned by the city) and has been working generally brilliantly. It's been a real pleasure to wrench on a 240 again, I had almost forgotten how much I love these cars and their little quirks. Particularly when you have a backup car they're a lot of fun to tinker with.
Generally my 240 starts on the first turn of the starter, like ~1 sec on position three, especially when cold. But sometimes, maybe 1 in 5 times when I've gotten it up to temp and park it for a while, say an hour or so, it takes a long time to start. Maybe I'll hold it for three or four seconds before it catches, otherwise I'll let go of the key and sometimes it stumbles a little and then starts, if not I'll just barely bump the starter again and it starts.
To be clear, it never fails to start, but sometimes it requires more cranking than I'd like. Like I said it's occasional and only happens when the car is both fully warmed up and was parked for a while. I can leave the car parked for a week or more and go in to start it and it takes very little crank time to start it in that case, so I think it must be something heat related.
It has a new aftermarket CPS on it but it did the same thing with the Bougicord one I got it with, I did that just as a precautionary measure. Anyone run into this before? It may just be that it's an old car with around a quarter million miles on it and I can definitely live with it as it's not my DD, but it's weird and I was wondering if anyone knew what is happening.
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