cold truck wouldn't start

[Vaio]

First of all this forum awesome. It helped me trouble shoot a 2nd gear shifting problem, and guided me through a radial arm bushing install. New problem, my daughters truck wouldn't start after school today, the outside temperature was about 20 or so. My wife had the truck towed home and they put it right in the heated garage. This morning the truck started fine. I'm looking for thoughts on this. Also reading another thread there was a guy who's Explorer was shaking like it was being starved for fuel. My Daughter told me a few days ago that her truck was shakeing when she was going slow then it when away. I'm wondering if her truck was having a fuel starvation issue. Is there water in the fuel maybe and it froze while being outside? Any thoughts from anybody would be appreciated.

Jim

 

[pugsy]

Can you describe the "no start" issue?
Was there no power? Just cranks but won't catch? Etc.

I just had a problem last night of corroded battery terminals which made it look like a dead battery as I could boost the car started, but it would run choppy as the power was not being conducted.

 

[Vaio]

The truck turned over just fine. Unfortunately i wasn't there to hear if the fuel pump was running or not. I'm really not even sure if she had flooded it. I'm guessing i'd of heard from my wife if she smelled fuel though. The shaking problem really has me puzzled. That's another issue as well, getting my daughter to explain what she considers shaking.

 

[Willard]

sounds like you just need to drive it and figure it out for yourself...