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You should never need to do that with an injected vehicle, and if it's not injected you might just need to adjust the choke. when you say "pump the gas" I assume you have a carbureted engine. The action of pumping cause the acceleration pump to put extra fuel into the intake manifold for cold weather starting. You may want to look at your choke system to insure it is closing when the engine gets cold. Theoretically you should only have to push down on the accelerator pedal one time to set fast idle speed, however as engines age,especially carburetted engines, carbon build up on the intake valves does not allow for proper atomization of the fuel in colder weather so it takes a few extra shots to accomplish this.
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Why do you have to give your car gas to start once it starts it smells like gas?
Fuel pump
Why does the car only start when gas ia added even though it has gas in it?
The fuel pump has failed.
How can you check your fuel pump on a 1995 Dodge Intrepid?
Under the hood find the carburetor and the gas line leading into the carburetor and disconnect or cut it and try to start the car if when you start the car and gas squirts out its not the fuel pump but if it doesnt do anything it is your fuel pump
How do you start a Cadillac after running out of gas?
You will need to add gas to the car and let it sit for a moment. Then turn the ignition and start the car. You may need to pump gas a time or two to get it started.
Fpasd gas fuse keeps popping when trying to start the car?
short in wiring to pump or the pump itself..
Why does your heater blow out cold air?
Do you have a heat pump or Gas Furnace? With my car, it was Heater matrix clogged with radiator sealant. The workshop cleaned it and it's start working fine!
How do you start a car that won't start?
if you turn the key and nothing is making noise check the battery if you are trying to start it and it is making noise press the gas a little bit so that the car can pump gas into the engine
If gas tank is empty for a week would fuel pump fail?
You must remember that (in tank) fuel pumps get lubricated by gasoline. If you run out of gas and keep trying to start the car with no gas in the tank....then the fuel pump is spinning without lubrication. So the pump can lock up. I see that occasionally here at my shop. However, if you put in enough gas to submerse the pump then beat on the gas tank with a baseball bat then the pump will sometimes free up and work again. If your gas tank has been empty for a week but you havent been trying to start the car with no gas in the tank then you will probably be ok. If you ran the car out of gas and kept trying to start it then the car sat for a week, then you may have problems. It all depends on the conditions that caused your empty tank and what you did after you ran the car out of gas.
Car wont start after running out of gas?
If your car won\'t start after running out of gas it could be that the fuel pump was damaged.
Ran out of gas now car will not start Chevy uplander?
You probably destroyed the fuel pump, which happens a lot when you run a fuel-injected car out of gas.
How old to pump gas in NY?
If you can drive the car you can pump the gas.
Why your gas gauge nozzle says empty when gas in the car in Malibu 1997 and my car won't start?
fuel pump in tank along with sending unit bad
