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24v Wont Start After It Rains

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Old Apr 21, 2010 | 02:28 PM
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24v Wont Start After It Rains

Its strange but after my truck sits over night after it rains or snows it will not start.

Its like it loses prime somehow. I crack and injector and I cant get it to start, but if I give it a shot of starting fluid it will pick right up and run fine until it rains again.
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Old Apr 22, 2010 | 08:12 AM
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Old Apr 22, 2010 | 09:41 AM
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Starter fluid is extremely dangerous unless you disable the manifold heaters.
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Old Apr 23, 2010 | 04:17 PM
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Well once again it has rained and now it wont start.

Yeah I know using fluid is bad but thats the only way I can make it start and yes the heaters are unplugged.
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Old Apr 24, 2010 | 08:35 AM
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Rain is water which interferes with the ignition system & spark plugs. You ain't got on spark plugs so consider rain irrelevant. Start searching for fuel leaks.

My CKP acted up & caused intermittent no starts. It was as if fuel wasn't getting from VP to injectors. AirDog kicked to 15# as normal. I didn't hit it with ether so don't know if it would have started. CKP didn't throw codes.
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