13brv3
Well Known Member
Greetings,
I continue to struggle with hot starts, even though the Airflow Performance system has a purge valve that's supposed to make this easier. Cold starts are great, never more than a couple revolutions before it's running, but hot starts are hit and miss, and recently more miss than hit.
When it won't start, there's no firing at all, which leaves me thinking it's either flooded, or has no fuel at all. If anything, I think I might not be giving it enough gas, likely compensating for all the horror stories you hear about hot starts on injected engines.
My question is how many seconds of priming action do you give when the engine is thoroughly hot, and has been shut down for 15 min or so? When cold, I give it a count of 5, but hot I try to use no more than 1 second. Unless I hear otherwise, the next attempt will be with about 3 seconds, or maybe 5 seconds like when it's cold. Is it possible that the purging is just so good at cooling the lines and eliminating vapor that I don't need to be so concerned about flooding?
Hopefully I won't have to start looking for a carburetor
Thanks,
Rusty
I continue to struggle with hot starts, even though the Airflow Performance system has a purge valve that's supposed to make this easier. Cold starts are great, never more than a couple revolutions before it's running, but hot starts are hit and miss, and recently more miss than hit.
When it won't start, there's no firing at all, which leaves me thinking it's either flooded, or has no fuel at all. If anything, I think I might not be giving it enough gas, likely compensating for all the horror stories you hear about hot starts on injected engines.
My question is how many seconds of priming action do you give when the engine is thoroughly hot, and has been shut down for 15 min or so? When cold, I give it a count of 5, but hot I try to use no more than 1 second. Unless I hear otherwise, the next attempt will be with about 3 seconds, or maybe 5 seconds like when it's cold. Is it possible that the purging is just so good at cooling the lines and eliminating vapor that I don't need to be so concerned about flooding?
Hopefully I won't have to start looking for a carburetor
Thanks,
Rusty