The other day I parked at a peculiar angle - uphill and sloped to the side
(a diagonal parking spot, on a fairly steep hill) - and found my Westy
(�85, unmodified, about 170,000km) very hard to start. It just wouldn�t
catch. 

I eventually got it started with lots of massaging on the gas pedal and a
quick bang into reverse to get it onto a more normal (though uphill)
slope. Managed to get it up to the top of that hill, onto the flat, and it
ran fine after that. Never had a problem before (or since) on hills�

Is a �side hill hard start� a known problem? Indicative of other problems?

>�r