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Subject:Re: Help! No ground to the fuel injectors???
From:Zoran Mladen
Date:Tue, 18 Dec 2001 07:01:01 -0800

Hi!

Thanx for responding!

Initially, it did not have a ground strap.  Per Ken's
suggestion I added one, but it made no difference.

WHat else you got????

Z

--- Bess's Buddies <bess@EARTHNOW.ORG> wrote:
> 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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