Poor cold temp start on 97 seville

[house3rd]

I am having a problem with my seville on cold days. It begins to start and then quickly dies. Eventually it will start, albeit a stumbling start. Then it runs fine. The symptoms are as follows.

Rough starts, particularly in cold weather.

As of right now a strong fuel smell in my exhaust. Not sure how long this has been going on.

You can hear the fuel pump cycle at key on.

Fuel pressure a little low. In the 30's.

No fuel leak seen at FPR.

New plugs and wires.

Fuel rail recall done, at least supposedly.

Dealer thinks it could be the fuel pump, but does anyone know why I would be smelling raw fuel in my exhaust. Also what does cold weather have to do with it.

If I could figure this out before I change that pump out it would be nice. Especially that raw fuel smell. That just doesn't seem like a fuel pump problem to me. What gives?

[submariner409]

Dirty/stuck/bad fuel injector/s. Listen with a stethoscope, using a piece of rubber vacuum tube in place of the chest diaphragm, for a steady "tick-tick-tick-tick" at each injector at idle. (Stethoscope from Walgreen, tube from any large parts store, blister pack.)

First fix is to try a 20 oz. jug of Chevron TECHRON with a fill-up of 93 Shell or Texaco. Hopefully that will clean things out. If not, then you'll have to remove the injectors, inspect the tips for deposits and then check the coil resistance of each injector with a digital VOM. Should read more than 12 ohms across the coils, better 14+. Bad injector reading(s) ? Get a rebuilt set from www.rockauto.com or go up to Vendor Threads ^^^ up there and contact Luke in parts at Lindsay Cadillac.

If there were no raw gas exhaust smell, I'd go with fuel pump. Raw gas = fuel leakage into one or more cylinders. Not good.......raw fuel washes lubrication off cylinder walls and rings.

[house3rd]

I'll give the poor girl some injector lovin. I'm not up on actually removing them and checking them, but I may give it a shot. If I can get this figured out I will let everyone know. I get frustrated when people post their problems and don't follow up. It might take a while though, now is not the time for me to be putting money into a 11 year old car.

[Ranger]

30 psi is very low fuel pressure and may be why it is hard starting, but I'm with Sub. I'd rule out a stuck open injector first and that fuel smell from the exhaust makes that highly suspicious.