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1993 - 240 cold start problem - starts, dies, won't restart 200 1993

posted by  someone claiming to be Roger on  Wed Mar 9 00:54 CST 2005 [RELATED]

Ryan, I never did install a new AMM. Instead I put lots and lots of water remover / fuel treatment in the gas tank and burned through several tanks of gas with this syuff, on warm days when I could get it started and have it run fairly reliably. That seemed to help a great deal but on a really cold day I will still have a cold start problem / cold idle problem, and I get a little bit of relief just by unplugging the AMM. Then it will start in "limp home" mode and I can get it warmed up enough to plug the AMM back in, which will then improve the idle. I still don't understand. On warm days this car starts and runs beautifully. It has this problem only in very cold weather. My daughter got stranded by it this morning. I went to where she was, unplugged the AMM, and it fired right up and I warmed it up, replugged the AMM and it was fine.

Why would the AMM fail only in cold weather? It is not a temperature sensing device that I know of. Why would it run so beautifully in warm weather? Why does it work fine on frigid days after just a few minutes of being unplugged? Is it really a problem with the AMM at all?

So, dude, I solved about 90% of my problem with the gas line dryer additive. Now I have this periodic lesser problem of unplugging the AMM to get I started and warmed up.

Any experts out there have any ideas?

Roger






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