In my efforts to get the car to the courthouse to get it inspected, I ran in to some pretty serious problems getting the car to run.\u00a0 Basically, it’s suffering from the same things that have plagued it for the last year.\u00a0 When I finally got it back in to the garage, I started doing some pretty radical things to the tune to see what would happen and I found that aside from giving it some pretty outlandish settings, it ran pretty much the same, no matter what.\u00a0 I checked spark on all four plugs, and that was good.\u00a0 I wanted to try testing the injectors to see if they were all firing, and as part of that, I went to disconnect the fuel line from the injector rail.<\/p>\n
Nothing came out.<\/p>\n
I left it disconnected, put a bucket under it, and tried cranking.\u00a0 No fuel.\u00a0\u00a0 The next night, I got a jumper wire and tried running the fuel pump.\u00a0 I can hear the pump running, but I get a very sporadic splash of gas here and there.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Tonight I’m going to try a new fuel regulator\/filter.\u00a0 If that doesn’t work (and I don’t expect it to), I’m going to order the Walbro pump from Modern Performance and drop the tank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In my efforts to get the car to the courthouse to get it inspected, I ran in to some pretty serious problems getting the car to run.\u00a0 Basically, it’s suffering from the same things that have plagued it for the…
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