Return of the No-Start 4kq--Oh, Oh addendum
Huw Powell
audi at humanspeakers.com
Mon Jun 20 17:46:05 EDT 2005
> It got so hot because I mistakenly took someone else's advice that I could
> put any relay into the fuel pump relay's spot.
I don't know who or why that myth continues to persist. The fuel pump
relay pinout is (probably intentionally) designed so that a simple SPST
relay will not replace it - in order to preserve the "engine must be
running" safety feature.
I don't know if this swap might work in the turbo (MC/MC2 etc.) cars,
where the ECU has the final say in whether the fpr runs. If that is the
case, that's where the myth comes from - but it simply doesn't work on
the CIS/CIS-E/CIS-E3 n/a cars.
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Huw Powell
http://www.humanspeakers.com/audi
http://www.humanthoughts.org/
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