Electric fuel pump
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mister.highwaystar
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Electric fuel pump
There is an electric fuel pump on my 1986 Toyota Tercel SR5. Where should it be getting power from? I can now start and run the vehicle with the mechanical fuel pump located on the cylinder head. I beleive that the three hoses connected to it are properly hooked up. At this time the engine runs ok, yet it seems to lack power. Could be from lack of fuel, or the fact that the timing has not been set. I would appreciate any help that I can get. The factory service manual does not seem to show an electic fuel pump, in either the mechanical drawings or in the electrical schematics. Which makes me beleive that the previous owner just placed it on the vehicle instead of replacing the mechanical fuel pump.
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danzo
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Re: Electric fuel pump
Your car did not come from the factory with an electric fuel pump. If what you are seeing is an electric pump, it is non-standard, probably inactive, and certainly not necessary. Please disregard it. Tear it out of your car with all the fervor and drama of Ed Gein seething over a victim.
Your car's "lack of power" could be from a number of sources, including but not limited to your own perception. 62 hosses only can accomplish so much.
Your car's "lack of power" could be from a number of sources, including but not limited to your own perception. 62 hosses only can accomplish so much.
It's a scientific fact that in a twin engine aircraft, when one engine fails there is always enough power in the remaining engine to make it all the way to the crash site.
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ARCHINSTL
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Re: Electric fuel pump
Good Lord ! And I thought I made obscure references!danzo wrote:Tear it out of your car with all the fervor and drama of Ed Gein seething over a victim.
I had to do a Google Search for a Wiki story about him - yukh!
I must confess I do not recall this at all - and in those years I subscribed to two STL daily newspapers, Time, Newsweek, and US News...
Gotta ask - what occasioned you to insert this line, Norman?
Tom M.
T4WD augury?
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"Now and then we had a hope that, if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates."
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danzo
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Re: Electric fuel pump
I'm a bit of a true crime buff, Ed certainly was a trailblazer. Who in blazes is Norman? I'd Google him but don't want to sift through 17 billion websites.
BTW my new to me gearbox install should conclude tomorrow. Gotta love those $65 clutch kits from Rockauto. With a fully functioning first gear my 0-60mph time will be cut in half!
BTW my new to me gearbox install should conclude tomorrow. Gotta love those $65 clutch kits from Rockauto. With a fully functioning first gear my 0-60mph time will be cut in half!
It's a scientific fact that in a twin engine aircraft, when one engine fails there is always enough power in the remaining engine to make it all the way to the crash site.
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Re: Electric fuel pump
Ed was supposedly one of the inspirations for Norman Bates of Psycho. Brrrr.
Tom M.
Tom M.
T4WD augury?
"Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?' Let us go and make our visit."
T.S. Eliot - "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
"Now and then we had a hope that, if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates."
Mark Twain
"Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?' Let us go and make our visit."
T.S. Eliot - "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
"Now and then we had a hope that, if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates."
Mark Twain