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Subject:Re: Help! No ground to the fuel injectors???
From:Zoran Mladen
Date:Mon, 17 Dec 2001 23:10:23 -0800

Hey Dennis,

Thanx for the message!

I am getting the pulse at the coil, and the wire ECU
wires are plugged into this side of the coil.  I'm
getting the positive pulse to the ECU - checked the
wire to ensure there are no breaks.

I'm getting juice via the double relay.  But no ground
to the injectors - no pulse, no constant ground,
nothing.  I drove the car prior to pulling the engine,
so I don't think the problem is the ECU.  I think its
either a break in a wire somewhere or a misplaced or
miswired wire.

Any other thoughts?

Z

--- Dennis Haynes <dhaynes@OPTONLINE.NET> wrote:
> 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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