Starting Fault

[Brealbags]

My valver starts in the morning from cold no trouble, but other times when the engines been turned off and i try to restart, it will crank for ages before spluttering to a start. I often have to give it some throttle as a form of persuasion.

Anyone else with this problem or any ideas welcome

[katbloke]

dunno if its the same on a 16v but when i had an old 8v megane rt sport i got this trouble a lot and cured it by cleaning the throttle body out with carb cleaner

[Brealbags]

iv had all the head off about 1000 miles ago, had all seals replaced/skimmed/full de-coke etc.

also had full inlet manifold off and throttle body and cleaned it in parrafin so shouldnt be any problems there

i was thinking maybe leaking injectors or injector seals?

[Allan]

have you checked your Ht leads?
I had a similar problem and it was the king lead, causing issue

[Brealbags]

thats a thought cos i snapped mine and replaced it with an old 1 from a 1.2

ill try that