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Enthusiast ![]() Joined Aug 31, '13 From Wyoming Currently Offline Reputation: 0 (0%) ![]() |
Ive been a long time reader of 6gc, you guys are an awesome community. I can/have spent hours reading through personal builds and checking out the how-to's. Anyhow, I live in a small town in Wyoming where 6th gens are like finding a needle in a haystack. BUT i found one. Not exactly the one I was looking for but its gonna be a fun build nonetheless. 1997 Liftback ST (boo) but it is limited edition and in fairly decent shape. One owner that I'm quite sure never got too crazy with it. Bone stock except an old school KN intake. Bout 6 years ago the clutch started going out and she parked it. Close to a dirt road... Ive spent the last 6 years trying to buy it from her and giving her hell about letting it just sit, next to a dirt road even! She wouldn't budge, had it since it was new and wasn't gonna sell it. Finally the day came and it became mine. After 2 hours straight with a pressure washer and jacks I washed 6 years of dirt road out of her and she looks like a car again. Then I started with the basics. Oil change right off the bat, changed coolant, brake and power steering fluid, clutch fluid etc. New spark plugs went in and wires. I popped the backseat up and pulled the fuel pump out of the awesome access hole. While crying and gagging from the varnish in the tank i stuck a flashlight in to check the damage. To my amazement it was pretty clean. Aside from the brassy gas it was pretty clean. No rust no mud balls, nothing terrible. So i stuck in a hand pump and sucked every drop of crap out if. Used a compressor and blew out the gas line. New fuel filter. Put it all back together and put a fresh tank of fuel in her with some seafoam. Picked up a new battery at napa and cable ends and slapped that in as well.
Time to fire her up! Bumped it a few times to get the juices flowin. Then cranked on it. ruh ruh ruh ruh ruh ruh ........ ok. Popped the intake hose off and put some gas in a little sprayer. Had my buddy shoot some fuel in it while i tried it again. VROOOOOOOOOOOOM. And sounded great. as long as he was spraying the gas. So, now that i knew it ran and had a big smile on my face I started diagnosing. Told everyone to shutup and I flipped the key on . Couldn't hear the fuel pump. I climbed in the backseat and flipped the seat up and turned the key on. Yep no fuel pump. So I ran down to napa and picked up a new fuel pump and strainer/sock. Put her all back together and turned the key. VROOOOOM. Awesome. Pulled it up in the garage and got to work on the clutch. Took a whole saturday but went well. So there she was road ready. Drove her around for 2 weeks. Felt good, sounded good, no leaks, no smoke, no missing, no fouling, she ran good. Then, Yesterday I hopped in her and turned the key. ruh ruh ruh ruh ruh ruh sounded like no fuel again. So i popped the line off the top of the fuel filter to see if fuel would come out. Nope. So i opened the access hole and took the line apart right on top of the fuel pump assembly. No fuel would come out there either and I couldnt hear the pump kick on again. SO I took the pump out, cursed napa for selling me a defective pump, and got a new one. Put it all back together and still nothing, it wont even kick on. I put a test light to the plug and found that the green/yellow has constant power. and its the only power. i assumed one would give power for say 2 seconds then kick back off. But it all just worked fine the day before.... The fuse is good and I assume the relay is fine since there is power? Or is the constant sign of power an indicator that the relay is bad? Turning to you all for help. I appreciate any and all input. Thanks in advance |
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