coll

So long story short, my SSV was stuck due to carbon build up, took it out cleaned it up and put everything back together. The car was flooded and wouldn't start because of all carb cleaner that I had to use.

I figured it was a good opportunity while I had it up to replace coils/plugs/wires. after all of that still has trouble starting up. when its cold i take about 15 seconds of straight cranking before she finally gets going. Once shes reached normal operating temp its almost impossible to get her started again until she cools off.

I figured it might be the battery because of all the cranking I had to do to get her deflooded ( i did have my truck hooked up to it so this wouldn't happen)

So i just went and purchased a new battery and still the same. Now the weird part is if I hook my truck up to it and jumpstart it, it almost start instantly ( hot or cold)

Hopefully someone might have a clue as to whats going on.

(I can take a video if that helps maybe someone can trouble shoot it that way)


a little about the car

2004 6sp MN ~82k miles

All new parts:
coils
plugs
wires
battery


I Replaced the started a year ago with the faster spinning one.

Could the started have gone bad??

Thanks

coll

here is the video to a cold..ish start (i'm starting to think it could be the starter, anyway to test it?)



and here is idle once it reaches normal temp

JamesD31

Your idle is high (~1k instead of the ~800 it should be). Does the car ever die while driving? How does it start when hot/warm?

I say it's your engine sadly. Reason I say this is because this happened to me when I had brought it into the dealership for a "fix this" thing. One thing they did was decarb it, which caused the engine to lose the compression it had - making it fail and become worst!

This might have been what happened to you, you cleaned out the carbon, but now it has "less compression" so it's failing.