Tess,
I think your pump is working or else it wouldn't start at all. It sounds
like it is starting on the cold start injector. As long as you are cranking
the starter that injector is squirting. When the car starts and you let go
of the key that injector stops and the individual cylinder injectors are
supposed to take over. I would guess the injectors are plugged from sitting.
The fuel in the injectors has likely turned to varnish and plugged them up.
I once had a GTV6 that had sat for years and it did the same thing - after I
changed out the old gas and changed the filter and added a bunch of injector
cleaner to the gas. I just kept trying it over a period of several days (I
don't recall if starting fluid was used or not but it is likely that at some
point I resorted to shooting ether through the air cleaner intake) and
eventually it came to life, first one cylinder, then two, then three and
eventyally all six.
You are making good progress. Keep the battery charger handy and don't let
new Optima go completely flat. They don't like that.
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tess McMillan" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 3:31 PM
Subject: [alfa] Now I am Puzzled
Thanks for all the incredible advice so far in the dx of my '87 Spider. I
have made a miniscule amount of progress, in that she starts easily and
the engine sounds fairly good for the 3 or 4 seconds that she runs. But
then, she stalls.
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