Date:         Thu, 31 Oct 2013 09:56:18 -0600
Reply-To:     OlRivrRat <OlRivrRat@COMCAST.NET>
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From:         OlRivrRat <OlRivrRat@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      Re: No fuel pressure options?
Comments: To: Max Wellhouse <dimwittedmoose@CFU.NET>
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                MW

        If you are getting Gas' @ the TestPort when the Pump is running then
I would try Clamping the

ReturnHose from PressureReg' to Tank & see if that gives you the
Pressure needed ~ But if that hose is

Old & Rigid BeCareful not to CrackIt ~ If that test works, swap in the
other PressureReg' ~ also make

sure the VacHose to the PressureReg' is in good shape ~

                                                                                        ORR ~ DeanB

On 31 Oct , 2013, at 8:22 AM, Max Wellhouse wrote:

> .1990 GL  2.1 with 260k + (120k on a boston bob overhaul)
>
> I've been keeping a fuel pressure gauge signal going to my VDO oil
> pressure gauge(toggle switch to change sources) and for several
> years it
> read right between 29-36psi  just like it should.  Then about a year
> ago
> it dropped down to fluctuating to a reading like 17-20 psi.  The
> engine
> still started and ran okay, but within the last couple of weeks, i've
> run the gas tank past empty on two different occasions and had to
> reprime the fuel lines and bleed the air out of the lines from the
> test
> port screw.  That seems to be the onlywlay to restart a totally dry
> fuel
> system.  The second time it ran dry, repeated attempts to bleed the
> air
> etc. have proven to be unsuccessful i ngetting it to start again
>
> I realize that running the fuel pump with ho fuel for lubrication is
> not
> good for it, and my spare used pump when installed leaked fuel out of
> the crimp at the top, so that wasn't an optio.  Before I spend mega
> buck
> on a new pump, I;'d like the list's thoughtson where I go rfrom here.
> Could the fuel pressure regulater be causing these issues of no
> pressure
> at all?  Is there a chance there's still vapor lock" in the injection
> lines downstream of the test port preventing fuel from getting to the
> injectors.  The engine will cough when ether is briefly shot into the
> air horn, so it's not an ignition or compression issue.  i have a
> known
> good used regulator, but I'd like a bit of guidance before I do too
> may
> spendy things to get it roling again....and yes, there 5 or 6
> gallons in
> the tank right now.
>
> TIA
>
>
> DM&FS