[Shotimes] Cold Starts

[Alan Fanning]

I drove my SHO briefly last weekend and confirmed that when it's hard to
start, it will just crank and crank until I push the gas pedal to the floor
- then it fires right up!   So that should eliminate the cam sensor as a
potential culprit, me thinks.

    Alan


wrote:

> Not sure why, but there have been many people report faulty CID
> sensors acting this way.
> 
> Considering the cost of the part and the ease with which it's
> installed I would start there ;^)
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 17:08:21 -0800, Alan Fanning
> <Awfanning@earthlink.net> wrote:
>> This is intriguing - but why would the CID not be a problem with a cold
>> engine?
>> 
>>     Alan
>> 
>> 
>>> I think you reiterated my point.  Bad CID, hard to start when warm,
>>> too much fuel not consumed while cranking, flooring the pedal enables
>>> engine to start.
>>> 
>>> People sometimes think flooring to get the engine going indicates a
>>> leaky injector.  Sometimes it's just a way to get around some flooding
>>> due to another problem.  In my case (long, long ago) it was the CID.
>>> 
>>> Take care,
>>> 
>>> Steve