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Originally Posted by mdisav
Car still did not start. I took the injector lines off and cranked it to see if fuel was coming out. It was not. So I pulled the vacuum line to the shut off valve and cranked it. Fuel shot pretty high! I put the injector lines back on and with in a fuel cranks she fired. I replaced the shut off valve with a new one I had and all is well. Upon removal of the old one it looked fine and functioned fine. Was it just sticking? How does the valve stay pulled keeping the fuel stopped? Ignition switch bad???
I will see how it starts in the morning.
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This raises an interesting issue. A number of forum members have posted problems with the starter not functioning at colder temperatures. A forum member recently traced the problem, not to a starter problem but an ignition switch problem. Your situation makes me wonder if a similar ignition switch problem, exacerabted in the cold, may the cause of the difficulty. I have not looked at the ignition switch. Is there anything in the mechanism which releases vacuum from the shut off valve when the key is switched on, that might be slow or not completely effective in cold weather in the same way that the starter component of the switch fails to function in cold weather?