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Subject:Re: '81 Westy Cold Hesitation
From:Bill
Date:Tue, 14 Dec 1999 23:11:43 -0700

How is that fifth fuel injector working?  You know, the one that feeds it
extra gas when cold.

At 07:21 PM 12/14/99 -0800, RRR RRR wrote:
>'81 Westy 2L aircooled, manual trans.  Runs like a dog
>when cold, it idles fine, but acts like it's running
>out of gas, or the ignition is shutting down when
>accelerating, big time hesitation, won't take any gas
>at all and sometimes dies.  She runs great after a
>llllooonnngg warm-up.  So far I have replaced the fuel
>pump and filter, blocked off the EGR, Checked the
>AFM/temp sensor with a multimeter, auxiliary air
>regulator, cylinder head temp sensor, and freshened up
>the distributor, everything was hunky dory.  I don't
>think it's the O2 sensor since the idle is fine at all
>times, and I believe the O2 sensor only comes into
>play below 3000rpm, but could be wrong. Thanks in
>advance for the replies.  Oh by the way, I live in
>Southern California so when I say cold I mean an
>outside temp of 50-60 degrees farenheit.
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