must find a way to get home without fuel regulator:100Q fuel prob

Frederick Smith smitty at pcrealm.net
Wed Dec 22 19:19:48 EST 2004


Vacuum makes it work, the engine is an air pump................ as the 
pistons move down
they draw in air, through the air filter , lifting the air damper plate. 
The air damaper plate
moves the valve in the center of the FD and the injectors "squirt". 
There isn't any way to
operate the injectors without lifting the plate, that is how it is 
supposed to work. If it
doesn't move ("lift") when cranking, then there is a massive leak 
somewhere in the
intake tract, the valve timing is off, there is low compression etc., 
etc. Of course if you
have low fuel pressure...............even if the air damper moves, the 
pressure may not be
adequate to operate the injectors. 

A methodical, step by step diagnosis will find the problem
(and it seems there are a FEWdifferent ones in your case). Get the 
vacuum system "tight",
then fix the fuel pressure problem. When that stuff is up to par you 
might have a chance at
a total fix, not much hope before that IMHO.

Smitty


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