2 problems may be linked?

[mancawx420]

Vehicle background: 95 talon tsi awd, with a 97+cas, just rebuilt from a timing belt incident. Went to start and has no start but it turned over.
I have 2 problems
1. The easiest is my problem with the crank sensor. When testing it I get 12.xx Volts with positive and ground. A reading of 5v from ground to signal. When the car is being turned over I still get a constant 5v. Is the sensor bad or am I just probing it wrong?

2. The fuel pump did not run when I turn the key to run position, when I crank the motor I still had no fuel pressure. So I checked the fuel pump by hardwiring it. Yep the fuel pump works… should have put the fuel rail back together before I did that one. Yes there is gas in the tank. For now the fuel pump is currently directly wired to the battery with a switch built in so I have fuel pressure running through the rail. I reconnected the harness at the fuel tank but like I said 2 of the connections are hardwired(positive ignition? And negative I assume, coming from the battery positive and negative)

What else does the relay control?
Do I need that relay if I have the fuel pump bypassed?
What else might be affected if my fuel pump was inoperable?
Any help is greatly appreciated. I’m just trying to bring a DSM back from the dead.
Thanks
-C

 

[luv2rallye]

1) http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/pro...art-no-fuel-prime-no-spark.html#post151265626

2) FP does not run when in ON but engine not running. Only runs in START and ON when engine is running.

FP relay only controls FP. If FP has relay bypassed just make sure you have it fused and will go off when engine is off, then should be ok. An inoperable FP just won't get gas to engine but won't damage anything.