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Re: Hard starting

To: "Andy Drake" <adrake@mail.ru>, <mgs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Hard starting
From: "Telewest \(PH\)" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 10:34:14 +0100
Check for spark at the plugs then check for correct timing.  After a lot of
cranking the plugs should have quite a strong fuel smell, if not be soaking
wet and flooded.  No smell = no fuel to the cylinders.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Drake" <adrake@mail.ru>
To: <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 2:06 PM
Subject: Hard starting


> Hello listers!
>
> Spring has sprung and my wife is bugging me about getting our MGB over the
the
> neighborhood bodyshop to get cleaned up. I had the car started and running
a
> couple of weeks ago after a long winter nap, and drove it nearly an hour
before
> I put it back away. I go to start it this weekend, and it cranks and
cranks and
> cranks...no go, even with a half a tank of gas, a fully topped off battery
> (left on charger over night) a little starting fluid and everything. Help!

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