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- From: lmcstst@noah.ericsson.se (Stamos Stamos)
- Subject: Audi fuel pump II??
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.151835.10540@exu.ericsson.se>
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- Organization: Ericsson Communications Inc. Montreal, Canada
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 15:18:35 GMT
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- The saga continues:
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- I have done all the checks, relay, ground wires, changed spark plugs.
- I checked the fuel flow, I have fuel flow all the way to the fuel
- distributor. I removed a injector connection from the distributor and
- tried to start it, but no fuel came out of the distributor.
- I then removed the distributor and found the plunger to be very stiff.
- The air flow plate would have a hard time pushing the plunger.
- When I completely removed the fuel distributor and all the fuel ran
- out of it, the plunger was freed. It seemed the plunger was
- 'pressure locked'. I reconnected every thing and low and behold the
- engine started. It was running fine, but the fuel pump was making
- much more noise than it used too. The engine then died, ran for about
- a minute. I didn't disconnect the fuel distributor again but I assume
- the plunger had become 'pressure locked' again. Some how the fuel
- after the plunger would get locked in and the air flow sensor would
- be unable to push the plunger.
- Then I checked the fuel pump once more. It obviously worked, but how?
- Could it be that it had failed in a very high pressure mode???
- Is this mechanically/electrically possible???
- The specs for the pump say it should take 8.5 amp at 11.5v.
- As my digi-meter only goes to 10amp I didn't want to connect it to
- measure the amps. I measured the pump resistance instead.
- It was about .9 ohms, that gives 12.8 amps at 11.5v .
- I wonder how accurate this is? Does the internal resistance of a DC
- motor change when it is working??
- I know that it changes for a AC motors.
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- From all of this I diagnose that the fuel pump failed,
- over pressurising the fuel distributor.
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- Do people agree/disagree with this???
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- If this is the case, did the increased fuel pressure from the pump
- break the fuel pressure regulator in the fuel distributor? The
- distributor also contains pressure regulators for each injector.
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- I am not convinced that the fuel pressure regulators in the distributor
- are broken as the engine 'seemed' to run 'ok' for a minute, before the
- fuel build up in the distributor stopped the engine.
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- How likely is this?
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- Any and all help would be much appreciated.
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- Stamos <lmcstst@noah.ericsson.se> Ellas
- Ericsson, Cellular Design
- Montreal, Canada.
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