On Wed Feb-27-2013 18:11, Roy Witt (1:387/22) wrote to Roger Nelson:

 RW> 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

 RN> Did you receive my NETmail?

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


I sent another yesterday and this morning.


Regards,

Roger 
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