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Old Feb 19, 2002 | 11:36 AM
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whats the deal with my dropping fuel pressure??!!

All right, here's the deal. My car bogs out on me a lot, almost to the point where it can't be driven. So i go and check my fuel pressure. low and behold, its at 28-30 psi on idle. when i hit the gas, the pressure drops almost to 10. So, i go and try my Holley afpr, and the problem still exists, after i turned it up all the way. The really funny thing is, it was running perfect up until i put fuel injector cleaner in the tank. Then she craps on me.
I thought about it for a while, and i'm thinking it's 2 things:
-the in-line needs replacement (i doubt very much with 78,000 mi. car)

-or the strainer on the pump is screwing up or doesn't flow as good (since i used to have a tbi, i changed the pump from the original 7 psi to 47 psi pump, but kept the original strainer)

Does all this sound likely? Oh, forgot, I DID CHANGE THE FUEL FILTER TOO, SO IT'S NOT THE FUEL FILTER!

Please help guys, this is getting very frustrating!!
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Old Feb 19, 2002 | 03:17 PM
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Have you changed the fuel filter since you dumped in the injector cleaner? Jus' askin'...
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Old Feb 19, 2002 | 08:43 PM
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Re: whats the deal with my dropping fuel pressure??!!

Originally posted by TPortFormula
All right, here's the deal. My car bogs out on me a lot, almost to the point where it can't be driven. So i go and check my fuel pressure. low and behold, its at 28-30 psi on idle. when i hit the gas, the pressure drops almost to 10. So, i go and try my Holley afpr, and the problem still exists, after i turned it up all the way. The really funny thing is, it was running perfect up until i put fuel injector cleaner in the tank. Then she craps on me.
I thought about it for a while, and i'm thinking it's 2 things:
-the in-line needs replacement (i doubt very much with 78,000 mi. car)

-or the strainer on the pump is screwing up or doesn't flow as good (since i used to have a tbi, i changed the pump from the original 7 psi to 47 psi pump, but kept the original strainer)

Does all this sound likely? Oh, forgot, I DID CHANGE THE FUEL FILTER TOO, SO IT'S NOT THE FUEL FILTER!

Please help guys, this is getting very frustrating!!
funny thing. each time i put fuel injection cleaner in my car, i ended up replacing the fuel pump. so, it sounds like fuel pump dying out now. probably from minute particles passing through the strainer and locking up the pump.
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Old Feb 20, 2002 | 01:09 AM
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yeah, i replaced the filter just two days ago, which is about a week this garbage started. its happened before and i replaced the filter, but it didn't work. when it happened before, i switched my afpr back to stock ( cause it first started with my afpr), and it worked again. then it happens again, so i replace it with a new stock unit (big waste) and it still didn't work, so then, i replaced the fairly new filter. i don't think its the pump, because i hear it prime and run, and from what i've heard, the pump either works or it doesn't, no in-betweens. the strange thing is, when the engine is cold and for the first few minutes of driving, it works perfectly, so, i don't get it.
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