Feb 08, Thurs, 2013 Tuesday, I drove the van a couple times, spent much of the day out doing service calls. Started after a couple seconds, and ran fine. Gassed it up, and came home.
Wednesday, didn't drive the van at all, don't think.
Thursday, we had some humidity. As of now, 1:45 PM, wet snow. Light rain earlier today. I decided to go out and gas up before the winter storm coming. Starter spins, but not even the hint of fire. Tried ether, and that didn't do much good. Something in there doesn't like wet starts. From under the hood, I can't see any spark plug wires. There are so much tools and such, I can't get the doghouse off. That's an hour's work to clear the equipment and stuff. I suspect the spark plug wires are shot, and need replacing. But, it's snowing, and that's a lot of work. Hope I don't get any service calls that totally demand the use of the van. And hope the weather dries up, so the van will start. Will try it tomorrow.
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I wasn't sure if it was flooded. Several squirts of ether later, it did start.
It's been wet the last few days, and I park on a gravel driveway. Do these tend to flooding, or wet wires, or some of each? When the van finally started, I dove it around the block, and then to a service call and back. Ran fine, the rest of the day.
The next day, I restarted the van, don't touch the gas pedal. Started after several seconds.
Occurs to me to check the install date of the battery. Might be weak.
Ideas, anyone? No money to replace, so, that's not option.
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