Real Fiero Tech

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How about providing sane advice? Like, should I call you a jackass for telling me to take a hike when I say to replace your engine because you ran out of gas? :scratch:

And nobody's still told me where to get the long- and well-known discontinued cold start injector...

How did you change a head gasket without pulling the intake and/or fuel rail once already? Why is it a big deal now? Because I fuck-as-fuck don't want to do it again . I think I've pulled that plenum off like, 15 times, and still haven't torn the damn gaskets. I call that LUCK and I don't particula...

check your timing and your coil. How the fuck do you check a coil ? Do you have to be superhuman or something? A coil runs the engine, and unless you have some kind of trick-ass equipment to measure voltage AND still deliver the current to the plugs without modifying it, you're shit outta luck. I r...

By that I meant the computer noticed the engine running rich (as Series8217 tested) and was compensating accordingly. Ugh.. Okay, whatever, I'm sorry I'm not gloriously accepting of everyone telling me I was wrong in the form of "advice", and finding out in the end that I was right all alo...

Doof, doof. Unce. Okay, yeah, I already said I had heard the hundreds of suggestions before and didn't care much for them, so I wasn't really saying "what's wrong, any ideas?". Mostly I was saying "Okay, I think it's my fuel pump, who can give me some tips on that?". Then everyon...

Okay, let me clarify. There is humor in this thread. It's somewhere. Humor in forums generally results in a "LOL" or an acknowledgment of some kind that something somewhat slightly humorous was posted. Usually. Just the same, the story thus far has been rather interesting, to note that my ...

Penis? :scratch:

eBay? LOL... nothing wrong with that, is there? Unless of course you got scammed with a used part... used fuel pump, LOL! Someone suggested going to a junk yard and getting a fuel pump. That's like buying a used air filter. NO THANKS! :la:

They were complaining about the dumbshit dog in the front yard... not a signature. USPS and FedEx are never stopped by that lump. :scratch:

Yep, USPS rocks serious boxx0rz. 3 days from the furthest possible location, 1 day if you're within a few hundred miles, and they're still pretty cheap, especially for light stuff. So I was like, hrm. 3 days for priority and some change left on the gift certificate I couldn't reasonably spend, 2 day...

THE RESULT! Leaking injector... :la: Mocking our suggestions? Yes! Since after all, I said "fuel pump?" in the beginning and everyone said "No, no, injectors, coil, timing, etc". FINALLY! The starting problem is over and it's all thanks to one noise I heard, that maybe only one ...

THE RESULT! You all owe me a beer. But I'll take a Diet Coke. :thumbleft: New fuel pump, strainer, and filter? I click it to Run, the pump whines for a second (instead of grumbling) and shuts off. I go back and hit the "test button" (schrader valve, whatever), BLAM! Gas goes pow out of it...

Okay, sweet. Tank installed... front lowered with bricks... back lowered with bricks... back lowered to ground... front lowered to ground... (I hate this jack. It only goes up high enough to... fuck, I don't know what! Get the tires off the ground?) Now... to plug the pump in, the battery in, put th...

Oooh... frigid HELL that sounds bad. >.< Yeah, I've done a good share of that. In replacing the filter I was trying to loosen one of the hoses... I put a wrench on the one facing the passenger side and tried loosening it, nope... wrong way... so I pushed it the other way (towards the back) and forgo...

Oh, lookey! I just pulled out a fuel filter with 157,000 miles on it. :thumbleft:

I can't get ANY air through this thing...

Yeah, I got the note not 10 minutes after the guy left. I immediately called the 800 number and they didn't have the notice number in their system yet. Then the 800-pick-ups number fed me through a bullshit "talking" menu (where you have to SAY things, which SUCKS), and I finally got a rep...

LOL!!! Okay, I guess I got off good then! :thumbleft: So I went out in mom's ghetto-ass truck (you know, the one with switches to start it and run it, with a hole in place of radio and speakers, and a bed that doesn't match the cab) to get a fuel filter from Pep Boys. After it stalled like, 15 times...

Oh, and I needn't even mention that I had to call two different numbers - one because the damn "InfoNotice number" wasn't in their system yet (gee, maybe because I JUST MISSED THEM and it wouldn't inconvenience them THAT MUCH to turn around right then!), and finally the other to get a real...

Rant mode on . Okay, so I ordered a new fuel pump yesterday from Fiero Store. Neato. I had them ship it 2nd Day Air with UPS for 16 bucks, a small price to pay to get back on the road within the week. Otherwise it'd take a full week since they're on the east coast and I'm... well, not. I get the UPS...

... There's supposed to be a check valve in the pump, right?

Yeah, it flows both ways just the same... :scratch: