Re: no start, fuel pump related

[Salvatore Guzzo <yu129742@yorku.ca>]

This is what I had to do......

I connected the little brown wire directly to the body of the car and
voila, everything was okay.  Appently, the grounding was not really grounded.

HTH

Sal


At 06:55 PM 12/6/98 PST, you wrote:
>hey all,
>sorry if this same post is up twice. i think i am having some server 
>problems. ok my problem is that i whent out to start my 82 scirocco and 
>it started but only ran for a few seconds then died. after that i could 
>not get it started again. then i turned key on and i did not hear the 
>fuel pump running like i usualy hear. so i checked the fuse and then 
>tried to bypass the relay, by connecting the two red wires together, the 
>fuel pump ran so i tried to start the car like that but nothing. Is 
>there more to the relay than just suplying power to the fuel pump? Is 
>there a way to check relays? they are kinda of exspensive to just 
>replace if i don't need two ($30, kinda tight right now) Anyone have 
>some ideas for me. I need this car to work, since my wife totaled our 
>other car, and now the rocco has to pull its own :) I love my car but it 
>has not been behaving so well latley. 
>thanks in advance, 
>sorry so long
>
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