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Old 03-08-2012, 12:20 PM   #25
jpar1983
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Re: '00 GLS hard starting

It's been a while since I posted to this thread, but I went ahead and got both the cam and crankshaft sensors changed, to no effect. Check engine light comes on sporadically, throws a P0101 mass air flow sensor code, which I then pulled and cleaned, also changed the air filter. The only thing I noticed there was that the mesh in front of the sensor had a slight dent in it, like maybe some fat-fingered mechanic shoved his fingernail into it accidentally or something, don't know if that is enough to cause the hard starting issue, or really any issue. The car routinely starts hard, requires cranking up to about 5 seconds and sometimes dies the first time it starts. I recently realized also that I have never had a fuel injection system cleaning done, only occasionally used STP or something similar. Anybody know if that could cause the hard starting? I don't want to keep pumping cash into this thing if it won't fix it. Probably going to sell sometime next year anyway, so if anybody is near southern Indiana looking for one of these to work on, let me know!
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