Re: it is the fuel pump????

["Wm. Josiah Erikson" <josiah@gsinet.net>]

If, when you take off the banjo fitting and jump the relay, fuel doesn't come
spraying out of that pump like crazy, splashing everything in sight, and voltage
is definitely reaching the pump, and fuel is definitely reaching the pump, you
need a new pump for sure!
    -Josiah (this is not, by the way, the proper or recommended way of testing a
fuel pump! (laugh))

Farmracer@aol.com wrote:

> okay, so the transfer pump checks out, and fuel is getting to the main pump.
> getting to. not getting past. I thought at first it was the pressure
> accumulator, but after removing that banjo fitting from the main pump, there
> was no fuel.
>
> now a question. on that banjo fitting there is some sort of pressure spring.
> how much pressure is nescessary to open this? cause if I remove the fitting
> altogether, fuel kinda dribbles out, but I think that is just the feed from
> the transfer pump. what I am saying is I would hate to put a pump on the car
> if this check valve thing is bad. my gut feeling is that the pump is bad
> though :(  it just does not seem to do much. it runs but that is not to say
> that it works.
>
> TIA
>
> Ken
> FS 4 93 Mustang LX 5.0
> ES (not yet) 85 Wolfie 8V
> 89 grand am, freshly washed (who cares)
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