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Subject:85gl 1.9 running rch with the cold snap plugs black ??
From:TC
Date:Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:09:11 -0800

I posted this yesterday & i never showed up ..

any ways we have just got a cold snap here
started van idled in the drive way turned it off after 5 mins last night
tried to start it 5 min later just turned over so i thought maybe flooded
I smell a wiff of gas anyways mess around for 20mins then after a few more
mins of cranking fires up
down to the home dump to pickup some h/w
in for the store for 10 mins back out
same deal bu this time cant get it to fire just cranks & small wiff of gas
so stuff a spare plug in the #1 wire we got spark, so I pull #1plug W7DTC 3
prongits black & fouled same with all 3 others & then I C carbon build up on
the tail pipe
(it was a highway run to home dump so it must be running rich even at
highway speed)
so i stuff back in my old W7CO'sfires right up ...
anf fires up today

so I have a rich running issue air-filter, dist, os2, temp2, cap, rotor,
wires all new within 12mths
so what am i left with over pressure regulator, afm adjustments ??
new part crapping out in cold ??

it seems to correspond with the cold snap so what tends to fail at freezing
temps that cause rich running
also on the run last night down the highway it feel ok when running

looking for best guess here ?