Re: [doc] re new accumulator-now will not start!

["blackaddertoo" <blackaddertoo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi  thanx for the advice.

got under there this afternoon, input flexible feed pipe has some 
sharp bends, and the outer sheathing has fallen off-time to change 
maybe (is that right, remove plate above from rear of consolea bout 
elbow position? to hold steel pipe).

now tried to feel feed pipe to fuel filter just the other side of 
the hole in the chassis. could be kinked as needed a lot of torque 
to under the bolt, this i think would give me the symtoms ie ran for 
a minute while the remaining fuel was in the filter, now maybe not 
enough diameter of feed pipe to provide the pressure.

maybe two ways to test, one is to have made a replacement made 
routed differently or install a pressure guage after the fuel 
filter, problem is would a pressure guage really give me a reading 
of fuel flow?

by the way i know can be a lot of work but its all part of the fun 
of ownership, i am not one to give up and sometime the car will be 
on the road (even if i have no hair by then!!).
Just got my headlamp brakets and buckets--both wee shot and trying 
to decide if i can get them in without removing the front fasciaand 
bonnet!.

Regards all

Steve
vin 1621
DOC 370




--- In doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Martin Gutkowski <martin@xxxx> wrote:
> blackaddertoo wrote:
> 
> > will jump the relay 30/87 and see if i can hear the pump
> > (maybe disconnect the feed line to the fuel distributor and 
check if
> > petrol is comming through (carefully!!!!).
> 
> 
> I noted you said that you "removed the rpm and furl pump relay"
> 
> The RPM relay -is- the fuel pump relay. The one in the manual 
marked 
> "fuel relay" is actually the one that powers the lambda system.
> 
> I have a buggered idlespeed ECU which does something very similar 
to 
> what you describe. It's quite comical because it works on any car. 
Plug 
> it in, the car will start and idle fine. Then it revs to 2000 rpm 
and 
> stays there for 15 seconds, then stalls.
> 
> I'd look at your idlespeed system personally. It's the only system 
that 
> can cause such a strange symptom. Try revving the engine and see 
if it 
> continues running. Not massivcely, but 1500rpm or so.
> 
> If it is the fuel system, it'll be the control pressure regulator. 
I 
> keep banging on about them simply because I've seen so many that 
have 
> failed and fixed poor running engines by changing them. It is also 
> called the warm up regulator, and it's in warm up that most 
problems 
> occur, when that little device is controlling the fuel.
> 
> It doesn't matter which way round you plug the fuel accumulator in 
as 
> long as the little one is tthe return,.although you're right you 
can't 
> get it wrong.
> 
> Taking off the intake manifold can open a whole world of hurt if 
you are 
> unsure of doing it.
> 
> Martin
> DMC Ltd







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