[T3] Ground for Fuel Pump Plug

[SCS Crewcab]

Can I run it forward and back with it still in the car if I disconnect 
the supply lines coming from the tank and put them in a bucket of diesel?

On 7/12/2011 4:10 PM, Mike Fisher wrote:
> You can run them both forwards/backwards in a bucket of diesel oil to
> clean them out.
>
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 1:03 PM, SCS Crewcab<scscrewcab at bellsouth.net>  wrote:
>> My prob wasn't the ground at the fuel pump plug after all. It was the ground
>> coming from lead 19 from the ECU. At the firewall in the engine compartment,
>> just to the left of center, there is a single wire connector that joins 2
>> single white wires. One of the wires has continuity with terminal 85 on the
>> fuel pump relay. The other wire is broken off. I'm pretty sure it should
>> connect to terminal 19 on the ECU but, I do not see any place on the harness
>> around this connector where this wire could have broken. It must have broke
>> off just barely inside the harness. If anybody has a picture online that can
>> point to where, on the harness, to look, it would help a lot.
>>
>> When I ground the broken white wire at the firewall, the relay does energize
>> and I get power to the fuel pump but, the pump doesn't spin. This car has
>> sat for 3 years with an empty gas tank and the pump was working when I
>> parked it. I priced a new pump online and, it's a real bargain at $547.00.
>> I'm hoping the gas that was left it has the pump mechanism gummed up. Is
>> there a link somewhere online that gives instructions on cleaning or
>> repairing them?
>>
>>
>>
>> On 7/12/2011 3:05 PM, Jim Adney wrote:
>>> On 12 Jul 2011 at 14:43, SCS Crewcab wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm trying to diag a prob with my fuel pump on a '71 FI Squareback. I'm
>>>> not getting a ground on the neg side of the plug that connects to the
>>>> pump. Where does this terminal connect to ground?
>>> Both wires come thru a grommet in the firewall, under the left side
>>> fo the dash. The red one goes to the fuel pump relay and the brown
>>> one goes to a ground connection. They are easy to follow once you
>>> find that grommet and the 2 wires.
>>>
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