Doesn't want to start....sometimes?

95 gt is my daily driver with 125k. Battery was going bad over a couple of months, it would give very little crank, but it would start up each time. Finally the battery gave out, so I bought a new one.

Here is the problem.....about every other day, from a cold start...the starter just cranks and cranks....but no start....no spark,pop, nothing....just crank and crank for a few seconds. Then I wait a few seconds and try it again and it may start on that try, or it may take 5 or 6 more tries. It has started each time, eventually, but something is certainly going wrong. I know that eventually I will be stuck with no start. When it does start, it revs to 1100 or a second, then drops to 800, back to 1000, down to 700, back to 900...kind of like a yo-yo. When I begin to drive it runs fine with no bounce of the rpms, they stay at about 650.

Any thoughts?....is it just a tune up thing?....last week I removed and cleaned the IAC and sprayed out the MAF, but that is about it. I am hoping it is just something simple to clean or adjust.

The distributor is a year old as are cap and rotor. Plugs are 6 months old.

I tried to read codes at Murrays, but their code reader was out.

OMG....what a retard

I went home and looked around the engine to make sure that there were not vacuum hoses unplugged, and that the coil was properly plugged in etc.....when I looked at the Throttle Body I found that the choke cable was disconnected.....WHAT A RETARD I WAS.....arrrggghhhh....I have had this problem for about a month and I was soooooo stupid. I snapped the choke cable back in place and I am going to test it later from a cold start.

too funny.

Not sure

It is a 95 GT...connected to the Throttle Body are two cables that both look like accelerator cables. One of them had become disconnected probably from when I took apart and cleaned the K&N filter a couple of months ago. I hope that the one that was disconnected was a choke cable (or whatever it is called because I believe that it is what revs up the engine when it is cold)

I am going to go test it now from a cold start.....back in a few.

It worked

It is 30 degrees here in Michigan and I left my car out for over 2 hrs...anyway..it fired right up with no problem...it started at 1000 rpm's and did not bounce at all.

I hope that was it.

Thanks

In that case....

It did start right up this morning without a hitch......since it has 125k, I am going to start replacing parts a little at a time.....starting with a total tune up, then the IAC, MAF and the TB.

Thanks