as in title. my escort s2.

seems to take long time to crank over. starts up every morning but takes slightly longer than should.

cold start switch is out.

could it be something like fuel pump relay???????? or something like that

any suggestions.

 

Could be a number of things worn plugs/leads,starter,bad earths there the easy things to check. Can't see it being anything to do with the fuel pump relay as they usually go and thats it you cant start the car.

 

how long is "slightly longer than it should?"

Mine used to take a while to key over, turned out to be a faulty metering unit. Swapped it over and now starts bang on key

As said tho, could be a list of things. plugs, leads, dizzy mechanism, even a part-drained battery not giving enough ummmph to the starter, weak connection at fuel pump blah blah blah............... all easily looked at and sorted tho

 

Mine's got the same, all of the ignition system's been renewed and my fuel pump definitely primes. Is there any way to tell if it's the metering head apart from swapping it over?

 

Try leaning and enrichening the idle mixture, chances are it's just a bit to much one way or the other.

 

Most commonly it's leaky injectors,
especially if it starts one cylinder at a time.