Roger Nelson wrote to Roy Witt:

 RN>> I don't know.

 RW>> Why don't you present all of the known facts when you ask these
 RW>> questions?

 RW>> This sounds like a game of the riddler.

 RN> I wrote everything I know about it.  I won't know any more until the
 RN> weekend.

It'd be best to gather all of the particulars and present them for
everyone to ponder, rather than take wild guesses and get a reply of 'I
don't know'...

I assumed that the starter is in working order because you didn't say that
the 'engine wouldn't turn over' - that means there probably isn't a heat
soak problem. If the engine turns over without any drag on it, then there
are only three things that will keep the engine from firing; no air, no
spark or no fuel.

We can safely assume that there isn't a bird nest in the intake sytem,
unless a little birdie came along and built one in the 30 minutes the car
was parked.

We can also safely assume that there is spark, since someone drove it to
the spot where they parked it. But that is easily checked on the spot.

That leaves fuel or the lack of it as the most likely prospect.  Is it
carburated or fuel injected? Late model carburators have inserts in fuel
bowls to keep evaporated fuel from polluting the air and they've had them
for the last 35-40 years. So carburator heat soak isn't exactly a problem
these days.

Fuel injection has a very small amount of fuel in the system leading up to
the injecters and that changes when the igniton switch is turned on,
allowing the fuel pump to fill the system up to the fuel pressure
regulator. It won't be subject to heat soak, as it is cooled by the fresh
charge of fuel.

 RN> Did you receive my NETmail?

February 22nd was the last one from you...


         R\%/itt


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