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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