Just looking at every possible cause of the truck not wanting to start after it's warmed up.Originally Posted by Embrey
Choke, Carburator, Distrubutor, coils, fuel filter, air filter and type of gas.
I think it may be because of a fuel vapor lock not letting gas get up to the engine. I had this problem years ago with a Datson sports car that had trouble starting somethings in the hot summer months.
My truck will start up at first but after it's run a while and gets hot it won't start back up after sitting for a few minutes. After it sits for about 15 minutes and cools off it will restart again.
I changed out the two coils and replace the distributor cap. One of the coil wires had fused to the distributor cap and when I tried to pull it off the distributor cap broke. So I got a new distributor cap and replaced the broken one. I got two new wires that connect the two coils to the distributor cap. Replaced the inline fuel filter but still need to check the fuel pump which also has another filter inside it. Check the automatic choke this morning and found it was working ok.
Figured I'd ask about the gas and alcohol mix to see if that was part of the problem as this is an older model truck that was not designed to run on Alcohol based fuel. Just wondered it it was adding to my hard starting problems or not.
To the guy that posted the list of gas stations without alcohol:
Thanks for the link to the gas station list.
PS: I think I have some stabil that treats gas with alcohol in it. I'll just add some of that to the gas tank and see if that helps.
The trouble with alcohol or maybe the blessing of alcohol in gas is that alcohol will mix with water and gas won't. So if you get water in the gas tank or gas the alcohol may help clean the water out of the gas tank. Or not! It may attrack water instead. Not sure which happens.
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