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Old Nov 13, 2004 | 12:47 PM
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Cool good news and bad news

got the guage on and running bad news is that it reads 45psi at idle but when gunning it and cruzin it never goes higher then 80 which is good...abother bad news i have never had this car when it has been cold outside so i went today high was 59 or somthin and was being hard to start kept dieing on me usally does this when not drivin alot for me....and then when i got it started and idling it was thunking like a hard thunk i thought sumbody was pushing my car....so then with all that is that normal to have it thunking at idle and then go away once it has warmed up???
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Old Nov 13, 2004 | 12:52 PM
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I dont have the thunking thing. Mine dies alot and I flood it extremely easy when cold outside. I have to run the choke and even then sometimes it dies on me. I have to usually sit there and blip the gas pedal a few times when it starts coughing and choking out.
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