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Back from a six weeks trip, my '97 850 will crank but not start.
The first thing I did is to listen if the fuel pump primes at turn on, I can hear it. Just in case, I swapped my fuel pump relay (#103) with wife's car. No success in mine but my relay works fine in her car.
The 2nd thing I did is to spray some starting fluid into the intake hose. The engine rumbled a bit but failed to completely start. The ignition system, i,e: plugs, distributor cap, wires, coil & cam position sensor seems OK.
3rd: There's absolutely no fuel odor at the exhaust tip. To confirm, I removed the #1 spark plug for a check and it's totally dry. There's no sign of fuel going into that engine but a test at the end of fuel rail test port still yields a squirt. Question: is it possible that my fuel pump can be still defective?
Is there a procedure to safely test the fuel pump?
The last thing is to verify if the injectors receive a signal but I don't know how to do that.
Like Shaughnessy wrote in the previous post, I've also noticed that the transmission arrow light is flashing. Never had that problem before. I carefully checked the battery connectors & cables, no sign of corrosion there. I recharged the battery just in case to be sure, no changes.
Thx a million
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Dennis
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