Fixed my Hard cold start issue
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Fixed my Hard cold start issue
I figured I would post this as I have been reading and reading on this subject and have seen very few people post up their results with this issue. I have been having a problem with cold starts on my truck for years. It finally got to the point of having to use a pinch of ether in anything below 70* ambient to get her started. Once started the first time in the morning good to go through the day. This morning it was about 19 last night so I figured I would replace the ECT sensor before I tried to start it. Ran to the nearest AZ and picked one up, came back took about 15 min. to install and crossed my fingers. No ether no long crank time just fired up and ran better cold than it ever ran. I have seen multiple posts where people have said that this could cause the problem and in my situation it did. Thanks FTE 3 plus years of aggrivation solved.
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Yes, thanks for the feedback,, if just 50% of the posters would do this it would make the search feature work SO much better..
I'm with you nothing worse than finding several people post the same problem, have several good replies, several completely stupid replies, and some so-so replies to read through but never really find out what actually fixed it..
Some seem to fixated on getting a high post count, so what would one more reply hurt?
OK, Rant over..
I'm with you nothing worse than finding several people post the same problem, have several good replies, several completely stupid replies, and some so-so replies to read through but never really find out what actually fixed it..
Some seem to fixated on getting a high post count, so what would one more reply hurt?
OK, Rant over..
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I myself get frustrated when reading posts to see if any of the suggestions work and there are none. The ECT was a common response to similar symptoms of my truck so I tried it. I hate throwing parts at something. It happened to work and I figured there have been many posts about this I would post up that it worked. You always hear of what DID NOT work instead of what did. Enjoy
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