Re: Kids, Cars, and a no start LBC

Frank,

With a DCOE correctly calibrated it doesn't take long to wet the plugs if the 
ignition system is such that the engine doesn't fire.

I think you will find that fuel does not evaporate from a DCOE float bowl 
rather that it always leaks out someplace (like the back of the cold start 
device).

Are you trying to start the car using the DCOE cold start device whereas 
previously it wasn't used connected?  I would junk it - a DCOE with a few 
pumps should fire up at at least 10 below and then some.

I doubt that the venturi are too big given it a 40 on a 1275.

But this sounds suspect <The Starter just weezes out just before it kicks 
every time, it does this for 10 minutes and then the battery is dead>

It doesn't sound like the starter is cranking at a high enough speed to me.  
Plug the sparkplugs out of the engine and see if winds over like a top - the 
starter should stay engaged no matter what - but if it doesn't maybe the 
bendix spring is weak or the pinion damaged (I have smashed a few starter 
pinions over the years).  If it cranks over like a top with no sparkplugs but 
with them in and cranking the motor releases early it more like some kind of 
poor electrical supply problem to the starter.

Hope this helps - remember a car is a just a machine and has a reason for 
everything it does or does not do.  People are human and don't have reasons 
for half the stuff they do or don't do and are unpredictable and 
inconsistent.  At least the car has a consistancy about the fault it is 
displaying.


Daniel

In a message dated 18/12/00 21:51:30 Pacific Standard Time, 
davriker@pacbell.net writes:

<<  If so the weber
 still might not be jetted rich enough to start.  The weather where I'm at
 is really mild, but with my weber DCOE, the float bowl tends to evaporate
 out.  I have to let the fuel pump run until the float bowl is full, then it
 fires right up. >>