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I wouldn't suspect the pre pump... 200 1988

posted by  Niel on  Sat Apr 23 08:48 CST 2005
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My wife's '88 240 did exactly the same thing when turning at a round-about (or circle for the South Africans). Especially if it's a bit uphill. Would start up right away. Did it about 3 times and then would not go again. Tried to remove the pre-pump, but could not get it out. Appeared to be OK anyway. After putting it back together again the problem went away. I think it was a bad electrical connection in the trunk at the fuel tank.

Some time later something similar happened where the car would just die all of a sudden and you could start it up while still in motion and carry on. Turns out that there was a water leak (during heavy rain) and the fuel pump relay got filled up. It was a bad design to let the relay hang down, I've turned it around.






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