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engine sluggish after start. 850 1995

posted by  rbfas on  Thu Oct 23 02:18 CST 2003
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1995 Volvo Non-Turbo Wagon, 70K Automatic Tranny.

One more for today. Sometimes when i start the car...the engine runs very rough. After a bit of time it then runs ok. SHould I be concerned and if this happens again, is there something I should do or should I just let it warm up on its own? Weird.








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engine sluggish after start. 850 1995

posted by  someone claiming to be Ray N. on  Thu Oct 23 04:31 CST 2003 [RELATED]

Any chance you started the car for about 10 seconds then turned it
off before this happened? Starting the car for a few seconds can
later cause it to run rough (it basically can flood). This is
called "Lawnmower syndrome." I've seen it a couple times on our
1995 855.

If thats not it I'd guess an electrical related component (plug wires,
distributer cap type of thing) or a leaking vacuum line somewhere.
Bay 13 web site has some good notes on vacuum lines:

http://volvospeed.com/Repair/vacuum_lines.htm







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