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Subject:Daily First Start Hard
From:Edmund Shotwell
Date:Tue, 20 May 2003 17:15:14 -0400

I have a second problem.
Every day the first time I start my 86 GL it is hard to get it to fire. The
more moisture in the air the harder it is to get going.  But after it does
start, I don't have any more hard starts all day.  Even after it sits at
work for several hours.

What happens the first time each day is I have to crank it for 1 to 3
minutes and then just as I let go of the key it will turn over once.  Then I
crank it with the gas pedal down and it usually fires up within another
minute or so.  The rest of the day it starts within 10 seconds.  I have made
sure everything is plugged in in the engine compartment, and I have replaced
the cap and rotor, and the plugs. but still the hard start in the morning.
Today I had to give up as it did not start after fifteen minutes of trying.