Hard Starting Cold Continental Engines

"Kobra" wrote in message
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throttle open 1/4 inch
mixture full rich
electric fuel pump/prime on
wait a few seconds (2 at the most)
crank


I agree...you are NOT priming enough. In the cold weather you can prime
twice as long as in warm weather or even longer. Also, don't forget that
the plugs can ice over (or so I am told) and this will cause the plug not
to spark. Old wife's tale? Possibly but it makes sense to me.

Kobra

Yea, what he said.

If you (the original poster) were as old as me, and had grown up pulling on
a manual choke every time you started the car, you would realize that cold
engines need a lot more fuel to get started than warm engines. All that
automatic, electonic stuff might be nice for emssions and reliability (and
keeping me employed) but they do insulate the average person from the
mechanics of "how an engine works"...

And, no, icing plugs is not an old wives tale. Usually happens when the
engine fires only once or twice but doesn't start.

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