No Fuel??
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No Fuel??
I did a motor swap I'm my 88 t2, and now I'm not getting power to the fuel pump or any firing power to the injectors. I hard wired the fuel pump to make sure that it was working and it is fine. I know that there are the two relays for the fuel system/fuel injectors but is there any way to tell which one of the two is bad? Motor will run on starting fluid but won't continue to run for the simple fact of there is no fuel getting through the injectors. I fuel through the fuel rail but just can't figure out which relay is bad that is causing the injectors not to fire... Please someone help I really really want my fc up and running!
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Getting power to my fuel pump isn't main issue, I have no pulse from my harness to my injectors. Even if I retire my fuel pump I still need to find out why I have no pulse to the injectors... A far as I know the injectors power comes straight from the main relay which gets its power from the ignition switch. So if I'm correct I need to check my main relay and if I have power from the relay then the other side which is the ground side through the ecu.
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Getting power to my fuel pump isn't main issue, I have no pulse from my harness to my injectors. Even if I retire my fuel pump I still need to find out why I have no pulse to the injectors... A far as I know the injectors power comes straight from the main relay which gets its power from the ignition switch. So if I'm correct I need to check my main relay and if I have power from the relay then the other side which is the ground side through the ecu.
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I know that there wasn't a pulse to the injector, by checking the harness side of the injector plug with a pulse check light. As far as checking fem-02 can ya double verify location for me
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Were you checking the primary injectors or the secondary injectors as only the primary injectors works when starting the car so if you happened to check only the secondary injectors then that would explain why you showed no pulse (and at what specific point in the engine bay did you check for this pulse). If you had a spare CAS you could connect it to the harness and w/key to on spin the CAS and the primary injectors would make a clicking sound. And FEM-02 is one of the two large connectors located above and to the right of the ECU.
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Im having the same issue he is, only my setup isnt in an FC. I know for a fact that the injectors are getting power, as right now both the injectors and coils are hardwired to a 12v source when the ignition is on. I do not however, have the other two relays in the fuel system wired up. Would that stop the injectors from firing?
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Im having the same issue he is, only my setup isnt in an FC. I know for a fact that the injectors are getting power, as right now both the injectors and coils are hardwired to a 12v source when the ignition is on. I do not however, have the other two relays in the fuel system wired up. Would that stop the injectors from firing?
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Well its actually all in an HB cosmo, so the fuel pump is currently run off the stock body harness for that car, which has no interaction with the FC's ECU or engine, other than giving it fuel obviously.
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The way its setup now is just on a switch, when I flip the switch, they have power whether the car is on or not. Im more wondering if there is some lead into the ECU or something from the fuel pump relay that needs to be there or the injectors wont fire. The coils are working fine, just no fuel.
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the main relay was what powered up the injectors and ignition, it also served as the ignition on signal to the ECU to turn it on.
if you are 100% positive the ignition is firing then the ECU is awake and working, the problem probably is an unconnected or faulty ground ring terminal on the main engine harness near the end of the harness. this ring terminal serves as the injector grounds to feed the ECU, without it there is no ground pulse for the injectors to work.
if you are 100% positive the ignition is firing then the ECU is awake and working, the problem probably is an unconnected or faulty ground ring terminal on the main engine harness near the end of the harness. this ring terminal serves as the injector grounds to feed the ECU, without it there is no ground pulse for the injectors to work.
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