[Re: Cold start enrichment Question]

[losinit@usa.net (Cathy Boyko)]

"Chris DeLong" <green536@hotmail.com> wrote:

Thermotime switches go bad. On the cold start valve there should be posit=
ive =

on one side of the switch during crank over and not during run position. =

There should also be continuity between one side of the plug for the =

thermotime switch and the non-power side of the plug for the cold start =

valve. the other side of the plug for the thermo time switch should have =

power int he crank position only. If all that stuff checks out then you =

probably have a bad thermo time switch. and it sounds like ,from your =

description, that your cold start valve is not working.

I'll check that out, but what I really want to know is this: Is a faulty =
cold
start valve enough to keep it from starting? Or is there likely something=
 else
also? It just doesn't want to start. =

Cathy