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My 2001 Jimmy has some kind of intermittent starting problem -- it cranks and cranks and won't start and gets flooded when doing that. I took out a spark plug and it was wet enough to sling drops of gas on the ground. So I propped open the throttle butterfly with the handle of a screwdriver and left it open like that all morning. So after about 6 hours I came back and it started up. Not every cylinder dried up, because I'm sure some cylinders had both valves closed, but enough of them dried out to allow the engine to start. Weather was warm, 80-90 degrees, so your mileage may vary. If this were a cold climate I would probably have pulled out as many spark plugs as I could and dried them out. Spark plugs are a bear to get to though.

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