The ground is actually switched/pulsed by the ECU. This is how the fuel
delivery is controlled. You need to check the wiring and either
determine if there is some reason the ECU is not controlling the
injector. Check the trigger wire to the ignition coil. The injectors
should pulse every other spark,(once each revolution). A bad temp sensor
may also cause this.

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of Zoran Mladen
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 4:16 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Help! No ground to the fuel injectors???

Hello everyone!

Its been a few weeks since I have been on the list.  I
am currently transitioning between jobs, so I
unsubscribed to the list.  Will subscribe again
through my new company in about a week.

Ok, now on to my problem.  I have an 83 Westy
air-cooled that I just rebuilt the engine in.  Ran
fine before except for a dropped seat in number 3
cylinder.  Everything is rebuilt and installed but I
am having a problem.  It will not start.  I have
checked the fuel injection via the harness per Bentley
and everything checks out.  Also, I have checked and
rechecked the connections - everything looks good.  It
turns over, fuel pressure is about 39 pounds.  I have
spark to the spark plugs.  The problem is I have no
ground to the injectors, the juice via the double
relay is there, but no ground - so no gas.

Its a California car and has a couple extras like a
speed limited relay.  I also tried bridging the idle
stabilizer to no avail.  Simply no pulsing ground to
the injectors, heck, no ground whatsoever.

Any ideas????

Z

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