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Subject:Re: Help! No ground to the fuel injectors???
From:Bess's Buddies
Date:Mon, 17 Dec 2001 17:13:32 -0800

Did you remember to put the ground strap from the body to the cylinder heads?

At 01:15 PM 12/17/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>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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