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fuel pump issue... please help!!

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Jul 23, 2005
Parkersburg, West Virginia
Heres the deal at the moment my car won't start, there isn't any fuel getting to the injectors. A few weeks ago i ran it down the block and back after it was sitting for about a year, then parked it and it died. So i did the normal diagnosis procedure and found that there wasn't any fuel getting to the injectors.

I took out the fuel pump to check it out and the fuel pump "sock" or filter that filters all of the debris in the tank was obliterated. Some of the sock was later found when we took off the fuel rail and blew through it. We took a fuel pump from a running stock talon and transplanted it into mine. I did have a 190 rewired that came with the car so i had to reconnect the stock wires.

When we had the hard line from the fuel pump to the filter off we tried to turn on the pump and there was barley and fuel coming out maybe a crappy water faucet trickle. We put the filter back on and it was barely coming up out of the filter. So we thought maybe it wasn't getting enough power, so i took the batter to the hatch and turned on the fuel pump by taking wires and running it from the battery to the connector for the fuel pump, it still had the same symptoms. There isn't enough pressure in the line to get it up the the injectors and i can here the fuel pump kicking on, so please if you have any ideas let me know
Luke:dsm:

EDIT: I meant to say I took off the hard fuel line that connects the fuel pump to the filter and blew through it to produce a peice of the sock
 
I took out the fuel pump to check it out and the fuel pump "sock" or filter that filters all of the debris in the tank was obliterated. Some of the sock was later found when we took off the fuel rail and blew through it. We took a fuel pump from a running stock talon and transplanted it into mine. I did have a 190 rewired that came with the car so i had to reconnect the stock wires.

You obviously have some of that fuel sock in your fuel lines running to the engine bay.
 
You obviously have some of that fuel sock in your fuel lines running to the engine bay.

Well i was pretty confident that there wasn't anymore of that garbage in the line, but you could be right..... ive had so much crap go wrong with this car nothing suprises me any longer LOL. I guess i could recheck the line, or just get a stainless braided line made for cheap.
Luke:dsm:
 
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