URGENT, need help with a fuel issue.
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URGENT, need help with a fuel issue. Well, I've spent the last 3 weeks working on my car to get ready to go do the final AX of the season tomorrow. During that time I've fired the car up a few times and it has always fired right up.
Today I got it back on the ground, and started it, then it stalled. I waited a little bit, fired it back up, blipped the throttle a bit and pulled it out of the garage to wash it.
After I washed it I was going to buzz up and down the street a bit and load it up. I get in turn the key, it fires up for a second and then dies.
Now it will not start at all, it's not even coughing like it's trying to start. The reason I think it's a fuel pump issue is the car has a Walbro 255lph fuel pump, and I usually hear it whining when it is running, but right now I'm not hearing the fuel pump run when I turn the ignition on with the key.
I looked at all of the fuses in the block and don't see any blown fuses, and I pulled the cover in the back to check the lines and wiring, which all looks fine.
I need any ideas to try to diagnose the problem, unfortunately I don't have a fuel pressure gauge on the injection, something I plan to rectify, so I don't really know if I have no fuel pressure or not. The way it fired up and ran for a little bit though makes me think it just burned off the remaining fuel pressure already in the lines and now has no fuel pressure.
Today I got it back on the ground, and started it, then it stalled. I waited a little bit, fired it back up, blipped the throttle a bit and pulled it out of the garage to wash it.
After I washed it I was going to buzz up and down the street a bit and load it up. I get in turn the key, it fires up for a second and then dies.
Now it will not start at all, it's not even coughing like it's trying to start. The reason I think it's a fuel pump issue is the car has a Walbro 255lph fuel pump, and I usually hear it whining when it is running, but right now I'm not hearing the fuel pump run when I turn the ignition on with the key.
I looked at all of the fuses in the block and don't see any blown fuses, and I pulled the cover in the back to check the lines and wiring, which all looks fine.
I need any ideas to try to diagnose the problem, unfortunately I don't have a fuel pressure gauge on the injection, something I plan to rectify, so I don't really know if I have no fuel pressure or not. The way it fired up and ran for a little bit though makes me think it just burned off the remaining fuel pressure already in the lines and now has no fuel pressure.
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I got lucky, that's exactly what it turned out to be. I ran and picked up another one and to my relief the car fired right up. I'll be buying another one and keeping it in my spares for the track. I would hate to have that happen at the track a couple hours from home after spending a few hundred bucks for a DE.
Glad to hear ya got it running... You can get a simple FPG from any of the vendors with an attatchement for ~50 bucks that connects to the shrader valve on your rail.. That would have showed ya you had no pressure and maybe save some time.
8 sec potential, 12 sec slip
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You can also always take another relay from a devise you don't need like the horn or the heater or something for temporary use to get you back home or wherever. Glad it was just a relay. Its crazy all of the things that start running through your head when something like that happens!
