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please help cold start issue, taxi's are getting expensive 200

posted by  Jessie on  Thu Jan 15 02:46 CST 2004
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I don't know how cold you are talking. I have had no problems starting Kjet equiped cars down to minus 25 celcius. With a good battery I would guess they will start at lower temps but it just does not get that cold here.
I would wonder about a few things:
Kjet has a cold start injector that becomes active below about -10 celcius. If that system is not working it will be difficult to start when it is cold. It richins the mixter a bit when the engine is cold like a choke.
Second how strong is your battery? The more voltage you have the more chance you will get it to start
Third air filter/fuel filter Have you changed them lately?
Fourth you said your engine was high milage. How is your compression? An engine with low compression won't even start well in the summer.
You can manually choke a kjet by pumping the gas pedal a bit when you are trying to start it. I just got a friends poorly tuned kjet Mercedes going last night doing this (it was about -22 celcius here). Unfortunatley its a fine line between choking it and flooding it.






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