Re: tested injectors --> Fuel pressure

["Ben Channard" <zeroid@hotmail.com>]

	So a fuel pump can put out enough pressure to cause fuel to spray at 
ambient pressure in response to movement of the sensor plate but still be 
too weak once the injectors are in the head?  Not trying to be 
contentious--just really curious.  benton------





>From: "S. Coleman" <deadbolt@mindspring.com>
>To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Subject: Re: tested injectors
>Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 21:53:09 -0400
>
>Since I just went through very serious fuel problems  on my 78....Here is
>what I can say of your problems.  First,...if the injectors are spraying
>*without* lifting the sensor plate,....then your fuel mixture is spraying
>TOO much fuel.  Turn the adjustment screw to lean them back out,....once
>they stop spraying,...turn 1/4 turn more.   Now raise the sensor plate and
>see if they spray.  If so,...lower the plate and see if they drip.  If they
>don't ,...then you are closer to a running car.  Once I got my car to this
>point,....I should have measured fuel pressure.  (which I couldn't because 
>I
>had no gauge,...but it was the last thing I *had* done and immediately
>proved that the fuel pump was not putting out enough pressure.)  I did
>everything else the Bentley said Many, Many times with no luck.  Finally I
>changed the fuel pump with a new BOSCH unit from Adirondack and she cranked
>right up.
>HTH,...let me know if I can help anymore.
>Chris
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