Joel: Since you could not start the car by manually feeding it gas, that
pretty much proves your problem was ignition. I suspect you have one of
the temperature sensitive pick-up coils in the distributor. This was a
known "heat soak" problem that cropped up on quite a few of these cars. The
symptoms are exactly what you describe; this problem was covered in a
service note shortly after the cars hit the road. Unfortunately for you,
your car may not have had the part replaced.
It has nothing at all to do with the fact that it is an EFI car, or that
there is a computer involved - it is a simple pickup coil that generates the
trigger pulse for the ignition coil - and it is about an $8 item at NAPA or
any other parts store. Be sure they know what car it is for, though,
because the standard cars have two of these pickup coils, your car has only
one.
Installing it is easy, but you do need a 0.006" feeler gauge to set the gap
properly.
Rob's symptoms and likely problem may be different - we don't know what the
circumstances were yet.
Dick Benjamin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel Smith" <joelrsmith@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2004 11:07 AM
Subject: RE: IML: My new '82
> Hi Rob, I have a 1983 Chrysler Imperial EFI (which I am selling), and it
always takes several "cranks" to start, no matter what. In the 2 months
that I have been using it as a daily driver, it has never started on me
"instantly", excessive cranking is always required. In addition to that, it
has refused to start on me twice (which isn't that bad), and both were on
hot days. The first time, it started right up after waiting 30 mins, the
second time, it didn't start period. I tried pouring gas down the wing nut,
etc, etc, but I didn't even get it to fire once (maybe lack of spark /
humidity / i have no idea / problem), so I had to wait until the next
morning (when it was cool) and it started right up. I would investigate
this problem further if it happened more often, which luckily it does
not.And that is the limit of my experience with these cars. I would suggest
checking the IML archives, there are some good posts there from not too long
ago(some were posted in regards to my starting problem that I am still
having) Joel Smit
> hEdmonton, Alberta--- On Sat 06/26, Rob P < fristpenny@xxxxxxxxxxx >
wrote:From: Rob P [mailto: fristpenny@xxxxxxxxxxx]To:
mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 11:47:25 -0400Subject:
IML: My new '82I just got my "new" '82 Imperial home. I have a hard starting
problem. Seems that you have to crank it over a bunch of times an it will
just randomly start. The car is stone stock efi as far as I can tell. What
are the first things to check? I basically bought the car without looking at
it for the seats. I'm afraid to even take the air cleaner top off because I
know how finicky these things can be
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