Sometimes the smallest fixes make the biggest difference. This car has been hard to cold start for 10 years now and we never figured it out. Thought it was the fuel pressure regulator. No. Thought it was some sort of position sensor on the front. Never got around to messing with it. Maybe the charcoal canister? Same as last.
Until now. Last weekend, my uncle's poking around and making a kajillion mental notes, and he sees this.
That's the hose from the canister to the throttle body (at least I think that's where it went I'm mechanically challenged at the best of times).
Pap left spare hose in the garage so I flushed it with MAF cleaner and popped it in. The car roared to life immediately and trying 3 more times in 24 hours all yielded the same result.
What got my wheels turning was my buddy had to replace the purge valve for his canister on his 2012 Cruze for similar symptoms.
Sometimes it really is that easy. The car also idles a thousand times better, too. Unfortunately we're not really driving it right now because the master cylinder has a slight leak, and it seems to be leaking an excessive amount of oil and or gas up near the intake, and certainly oil from the front of the engine. I know these cars leak no matter what, but I want it thoroughly inspected before it gets driven much more. I did have to drive it to work 2 weeks ago because the Ram I just bought blew the torque converter., and decided after work (early day) to snap some actually good pictures of it. Here's one of em. It hasn't been washed in over a month, by the way. Just a feather duster every once in a while.
