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Paul,
I didn't mean to imply that you were slow or stupid. But your descriptions in this thread (and others) led me to think you may not be thoroughly familiar with these earlier 240s. And that made it hard for me to be sure of just what you were doing, given:
1) Your earlier (and unheard of) Crank Pulley experiences:
My son has an 83 240 with the two piece pulleys, (and spacers) which bolt to the harmonic balancer via two studs and four bolts. This will be the third time we have replaced the pulleys and twice we have replaced the balancer.
• The term "Balancer" showed a lack of '83 familiarity, and there is no mention of how the main crank pulley bolt was being tightened. [In another thread you advocate using an impact wrench for loosening the main bolt, with no mention of tightening to torque spec.]
2) The Accumulator/Filter mix up in this thread.
• Not a biggie, but enough to raise questions about '85 240 experience level
3) Several comments here like: disconnected the fuel line coming into the fpr and no gas flow to the fuel pressure regulator. Then today: And yes I disconnected the return fuel line to check the fuel flow.
• Yes, a good system should be gushing return fuel from the return line, but till now it seemed that you've somehow been checking fuel into and to the FPR. Not typical as I said, which prompted my question.
"Given that I had to nudge the main pump back to life, are we looking at the fuel filter as a probable culprit. What about the stuck pump? I have a pump, filter bracket that should bolt on to Guy's car."
From your description the pump sounds like the prime suspect. I'm not so suspicious of the filter, given that the engine did run briefly (presumably while the pump ran). Also, I've never actually had or heard of a confirmed main filter problem.
Be careful with that short line from pump to filter. If possible, pull the tray with pump and filter so you can work on it at your bench, and use your air wrench to loosen the filter Banjo Bolts. Many sad tales here about that short line getting trashed on 1st attempts.
I know it's doubly hard when you have to "commute" to and from the patient, but we'll all try to help when we can.
Press on,
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Bruce Young, '93 940-NA (current), 240s (one V8), 140s, 122s, since '63.
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