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No-Start / Hard-Start Problem 700 1989

No problem. As it turns out, I may have been barking up the wrong tree anyway. Last night as I'm heading home. I get a call on the cell from my wife and mother-in-law. They had the car at the gas station and it wouldn't start at all, after filling it up. I got there and thanks to minimal tools in her trunk, I was able to loosen the fuel line at the regulator. I told my wife to turn the igntion on for a split second. Let's just say the "pump appeared to be working fine". I tested for spark - good spark. Still no start though. Sooooo...."Let's see", I'm thinking to myself - fuel being supplied (although regulator may not be allowing fuel to the rail, they usually fail the opposite way) - good spark - injectors must not be openning. I tell her to start cranking it and I whack the Radio Suppression Relay with a screwdriver handle. It instantly fires-up and purrs like a kitten. Now there's some high tech diagnostics for you.

As far as I know, it's got the original relay, as she has owned the car since new and we don't have ant recall of its replacement. $26 at Swedish Engineering which is right down the street from where I work. So it'd going to get a new relay and then we'll see where we stand.

As for the 2-3-2 code - That code indicates either an over-rich OR over-LEAN situation. It might be that the lack of injector operation caused the over-lean condition to be met??? We'll see if the code returns after popping a new relay in.






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