[T3] Ground for Fuel Pump Plug

[Mike Fisher]

You could, but that is the hard way I'm thinking.

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 1:21 PM, SCS Crewcab <scscrewcab at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> 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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