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Old October 18th 17, 12:51 AM posted to rec.autos.tech
Scott Dorsey
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Default Why is my 1985 s 10 2.8 engine so hard to start ?

dsi1 > wrote:
>On Tuesday, October 17, 2017 at 3:34:18 AM UTC-10, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>
>> I was leaning very strongly toward this being the case, that the choke is not
>> leaning down enough. But I suggested earlier than he try manually blocking
>> the intake to simulate aggressive choking and he said that didn't help.

>
>It's a cold start problem with a carburetor. This should be dead simple to fix. He needs have an old fart mechanic look at his carb.


You'd think so. But back in the seventies _everybody_ had a carb and
_everybody_ had cold start problems. It was just considered normal.
Hmm, maybe there is a correlation here.
--scott

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