[s-cars] fuel pressure gage

[Sean Douglas]

I guess I wasn't clear, I installed the gauge inline between the fuel
supply line and the fuel rail using a spare piece of flex line. The
spare piece happened to be a return line that I modified to accept the
gauge.

Jerry - I'll send you some pictures of my apparatus tomorrow.

Sean



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Strangways [mailto:Strangconst at rogers.com] 
> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 7:10 PM
> To: Sean Douglas; Jerry Scott
> Cc: s-car-list
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] fuel pressure gage
> 
> 
> That does not give you the fuel pressure at the rail. It give 
> you the return 
> pressure only. Not a real useful number IMHO.
> 
> Mark
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Sean Douglas" <quattro20v at telus.net>
> To: "Jerry Scott" <jerryscott at earthlink.net>
> Cc: "s-car-list" <s-car-list at audifans.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 7:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] fuel pressure gage
> 
> 
> > Jerry:
> >
> > I made a "homemade" pressure tester to see if I was getting adequate
> > pressure
> > to the injectors relative to boost.
> >
> > I found a used flex line that runs from the firewall to the fuel 
> > pressure regulator and T'eed in a pressure gauge with a 3 
> ft line. I 
> > did this in a manner that did not require any cutting of 
> the valuable 
> > fuel lines and fed the line to windshield so I could drive 
> the car and 
> > watch the gauge.
> >
> > I can give you more details if you are interested.
> >
> > Sean
> >
> > Quoting Jerry Scott <jerryscott at earthlink.net>:
> >
> >> Does anyone have an easy set-up for a permanent fuel pressure gage 
> >> that they could recommend.  I would want it under the hood 
> and would 
> >> probably break into the line at the fuel filter.  I'm 
> still trying to 
> >> trace down my cold weather hard starting problem and 
> suspect that the 
> >> pressure may be dropping to zero over night.
> >>
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