waltah
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- Mar 2, 2011
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fairfield,
Virginia
With symptoms of possible very low fuel pressure in my 'parts' car project I'm about to pull the pump out to have a look at the strainer, gas, etc. With the cover plate off it looks just like my 1G Expos but on those cars what appears to be a flare nut fitting accessible through the trunk floor is actually silver soldered. There's a flex hose that goes from there to the steel line under the body and you disconnect the pump down underneath and sort of corkscrew it up out of the tank and hole in the floor.
Rather than try applying lots of force to see what happens I decided to ask. Can you disconnect the pressure line through the access hole or is the real (undo-able) joint down below?
(Symptoms ... Runs fine at idle for a couple seconds, will not run above idle, eventually dies but can be restarted immediately. Also -- car has largely unknown history, came in non-running condition, and has had a very hard life -- nothing can be trusted. Fixed so far -- valve timing off by 1 tooth, coil for 1-4 weak/replaced, ECU died 'no CEL.' )
Rather than try applying lots of force to see what happens I decided to ask. Can you disconnect the pressure line through the access hole or is the real (undo-able) joint down below?
(Symptoms ... Runs fine at idle for a couple seconds, will not run above idle, eventually dies but can be restarted immediately. Also -- car has largely unknown history, came in non-running condition, and has had a very hard life -- nothing can be trusted. Fixed so far -- valve timing off by 1 tooth, coil for 1-4 weak/replaced, ECU died 'no CEL.' )