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Old 12-15-2009, 05:06 PM
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Same here man. I gotta go down to town for a class on thursday so hopefully I can check it out then.
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its been colder than **** here too. Mine still has the MAF and its been idling alittle lower than normal when its was really cold. Other than idling alittle low it hasn't died on me driving around.
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They called me today and said it only had 10 psi of fuel pressure. They also said they checked it when they had it running and it was 58 or 60 where it should be. Would the low fuel pressure cause it to run rich? I also told them to look at the vaccum lines. I wanna get down there and check it out myself.
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Now the dealer just called me back and said it started right up and is running great with plenty of fuel pressure and the idle is 14.7-14.8 not running rough or like **** either. I'm at a loss to what the hells going on. They checked all the vaccum hoses and they said its running with plenty of vaccum.
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what is your fuel setup besides 60lbhr injectors? if its stock then the regulator is in the tank. shouldn't make it run rich with low psi but it would make it die for sure. maybe i mised something but if they added fuel at idle but no where else then that why it was rich at idle and not while driving. it more than likely didn't need the added fuel but it looked like it due to low fuel pressure. i would say take the added amount of fuel back out and fix the fuel pressure issue and it will be good. if your running stock pump at 10psi it may have just worn it out having to run full out while in boost. i know mine use to drop pressure during a good run. it would not g

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Originally Posted by Sambo53
Now the dealer just called me back and said it started right up and is running great with plenty of fuel pressure and the idle is 14.7-14.8 not running rough or like **** either. I'm at a loss to what the hells going on. They checked all the vaccum hoses and they said its running with plenty of vaccum.
again i don't know if you have stock fuel system but if you do the regulator does not have a vacuum line to it. sounds to me like it don't like the cold temps. i'd have them putin a new pump. if it has 10psione minute and 58 the next hmmmm tells me its not happy.
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Its got a Walbro in tank as well. The only that came with the radix I had back in the day. Yeah man everything else is stock.
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there HAVE been a lot of walbro dieing here lately. lol i would inspect the stuff inside there anyway and maybe get a new one. maybe something cracked there is no telling.
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I'm damn sure not letting a dealership do that job for me. Would rather not get poked for $500 bucks for a 45 min job.
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I'd have to say with what you told me and reading all of this, this is not a tune related issue and you most likely a fuel pump issue. Just put a new one in and see where that gets you. Running good one minute and not the next is not a tuning issue.


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