97 Hard to Start Warm!
kb0nly
04-11-2009, 02:04 AM
Hey guys! Been on hiatus from the forums for a long while, just too busy with other things.
Got my 97 TP giving me a bit of grief lately. Here is what happens...
Let it sit over night and it fires right up in the morning, barely have to tap the key and she jumps to life. Take her for a drive, say about 25 miles to go to the nearby Wal-Mart and shut her off and run in, spend a half hour or so in the store and come back out and crank and she runs erratically, the tach jumping up and down 2-3 times as she revs and stumbles and then dies. After it does that you can crank and crank and crank and she won't run.
But, if you hold the gas pedal down and then crank she will fire right up. So i am thinking flooded?? I had a Dodge Caravan that did something similar to me years ago, and it ended up being a leaky fuel injector that would drip when it was warmed up and flood the cylinder with fuel. Do you think this is a bad injector?? I was thinking of buying one new injector and then trying one cylinder at a time over a week or so and see if i can find the bad one. I know, i should probably just replace them all but can't afford it right now.
I see some posts on here that recommend changing the crank sensor, but i don't have any other symptoms. No error codes, no CEL, just this rough starting once she is warm.
Hoping for some constructive criticism!
Thanks!
Got my 97 TP giving me a bit of grief lately. Here is what happens...
Let it sit over night and it fires right up in the morning, barely have to tap the key and she jumps to life. Take her for a drive, say about 25 miles to go to the nearby Wal-Mart and shut her off and run in, spend a half hour or so in the store and come back out and crank and she runs erratically, the tach jumping up and down 2-3 times as she revs and stumbles and then dies. After it does that you can crank and crank and crank and she won't run.
But, if you hold the gas pedal down and then crank she will fire right up. So i am thinking flooded?? I had a Dodge Caravan that did something similar to me years ago, and it ended up being a leaky fuel injector that would drip when it was warmed up and flood the cylinder with fuel. Do you think this is a bad injector?? I was thinking of buying one new injector and then trying one cylinder at a time over a week or so and see if i can find the bad one. I know, i should probably just replace them all but can't afford it right now.
I see some posts on here that recommend changing the crank sensor, but i don't have any other symptoms. No error codes, no CEL, just this rough starting once she is warm.
Hoping for some constructive criticism!
Thanks!
kb0nly
04-17-2009, 03:11 PM
Wow, NOBODY is going to comment on this?
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