

| Subject: | 88 GL - Failure to Start - It's Back!!!!!!!! |
| From: | JRodgers |
| Date: | Sat, 14 Jun 2014 20:36:45 -0500 |
I have a Gremlin living in my van! I just know it!! After all the trouble over the last few weeks with the failure to start bit - I though the issue resolved when I swapped in another coil. Not so! It started perfectly every time for 9 days straight. But today it will not start. It acts a bit like fuel starvation. Turn the key to aux - wait until the door/key tone ends, turn to start. At this point - it will either sit there and grind, grind, grind -OR - it fire up with a big varrooom then run just a few seconds, then quit - as if starved of fuel. Kinda like when you might give it a shot of starting ether - it catches, runs a few seconds until the ether is burned up - then it quits. I did a fuel pressure test and it was good - in the 30's psi range. I also did a start test with the gauge connected - there was no change. I did to a coil/computer control check, just in case. and got a good coil spark and I could hear the injectors pulse. I did not, however - pull the injectors to actually observe their spraying. That is for tomorrow in good light, unless someone has some good ideas. I will be putting in a new Temp II sensor tomorrow. The Digifant Service Manual says that for any no start situation - the Temp II sensor is always suspect. Anybody got any ideas? I'll sure listen!! Thanks, John
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