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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