Re: [DML] What went wrong?

[Warren Wallingford <warren@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't know where your power has gone, but if you ran the pump dry on a 
bench, it's toast.
Our toll-free line, 800 USADMC1, is available during working hours for 
tech help.  Why don't you call?
Warren at DMC



dmcjosh85 wrote:
> The previous Thread of mine regarding a dead fuel pump had a  lot of 
> great input and advice from the DML community, DMC garden groove and 
> a So. Cal owner with some good ideas. for that I thank you all. 
> Unfortunatley the problem still persists that I cant get my fuel 
> pump to work, but in light of that I present the following steps and 
> measures taken to get me to where im at know on what I do know.
> 
> 1. #7 fues is not bad
> 2. the fuel pump works, I tested it outside the car on 12 volt.
> 3. I had a loose ground plug BUT it does not belong to my fuel pump
> 4. The front wiring harness makes contact with the + and - ends of 
> the fuel pump. so that rules out that I have a severed line on that.
> 5. The Main harnes makes contact from the connection in the water 
> bottle housing to the ground connection where the inertia switch is 
> located. with that said my ground connection is good all the way. 
> 6. The Pump did not run with the RPM Relay jumped and again with the 
> RPM relay and the inertia switch jumper and again with the RPM relay 
> jumped and a ground to the frame.
> 
> And now some light on my problem..
> 7. All connections on my RPM relay received 11.75 Volts, except when 
> the Brown wire is jumped to the Purple/White for the fuel pump my 
> voltometer reported a dead 0.01. same thing with the testing needles 
> testing the lines themself without the jumper in-place.
> 
> So this whole time the devious problem has been positive power flow. 
> But why? Why is there now power going thru that one wire when every 
> other line gets power. 
> 
> The only other test that I can think of performing is checking to 
> see is the signal gets from the conenction point on the RPM relay 
> down to the connection point where the main harness hooks up to the 
> front harness inside the water washer fluid box. 
> 
> Im about out of idea's here, ONce agian any and all help would 
> greatly be appreciated.
> 
> ~ Josh Tidwell
> 04463 VIN  (Bakersfield, CA)
> dmcjosh85@xxxxxxxxx




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