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Originally Posted by leathermang
You are really in the block heater zone of functioning right now...
Do you have one ?
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Yes, I do, but it is still in the box.
I bought it last year when I was having similar problems but my problems went away when I replaced the starter.
This starter is only three months old.
I ran out of fuel about a month ago and whatever transpired magnified a rough running problem I was having. I spent a lot of time engaging the starter during that fiasco.
I thought that maybe my valves needed to be adjusted so I opened her up and found that only one valve was out of spec. I adjusted it and there was little to no improvement.
When I ran out of fuel I tried to get to the station with transmission fluid and motor oil. I only had about a third of a quart of TF and it actually ran on that but the motor oil was a no-go. It was 15W40 and it was about 50F outside.
It was running a little rougher than usual after that but I had already noticed that I was having some rough running issues.
I will be testing the other four GPs tomorrow so I can eliminate them as possible suspects.
I am pretty sure that I need new/rebuilt injectors and that is probably contributing to my cold starting issues but it fires right up when warm.
This leads me to suspect the GPs but the light and relay are working as normal.
The one GP I pulled tonight was practically spotless. No carbon whatsoever on it.