tinypanzer-----easy easy big fellow...lets get the car running before we dog out the accessories... besides i might live in the ghetto...just cause we have cows for neighbors doesn't mean it's not a tuff hood.....


And just so you know, I was giving (if i can get running) to my son who is about to graduate high school..

Got there yet?

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190E's:
2.5-16v 1990 90,000m Astral Silver
2.0E 8v 1986 107,000m Black 2nd owner
http://www.maylane.demon.co.uk/190esmall.jpghttp://www.maylane.demon.co.uk/190esmall2.jpg

No not running..I'm stumped...pulled FD off just to make sure the pump was still working and of course it was..its still doing the same....starts for a second and dies..I completely out of ideas..

You could try a new thread with a more accurate title maybe. Sounds like you've pretty much got to where the problem is, but need to figure out what's making it like that.
Have you unplugged the EHA (small black decide on the side of the fuel distribution unit with a 2 prong plug) - to disable the computers from messing with the mixture an rule them out?

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190E's:
2.5-16v 1990 90,000m Astral Silver
2.0E 8v 1986 107,000m Black 2nd owner
http://www.maylane.demon.co.uk/190esmall.jpghttp://www.maylane.demon.co.uk/190esmall2.jpg

think your right I'll start a new thread...maybe new title would spark new ideas or something I've missed

Yeah.... try to include what you've done and the results so it's clear

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190E's:
2.5-16v 1990 90,000m Astral Silver
2.0E 8v 1986 107,000m Black 2nd owner
http://www.maylane.demon.co.uk/190esmall.jpghttp://www.maylane.demon.co.uk/190esmall2.jpg

I have registered only to post up a reply to this old thread.

I have read hundreds of pages across tens of threads on very many online forums. I spent many hours looking into the problem with and without mechanic. In the end we found ourselves in a dead end we did not seem to be able to move forward with this no matter what.

Many threads on many different forums looked at similar issues but none of them seemed so close, so similar to what I was experiencing. I am hoping that my post will close this thread. Obviously I am not able to tell whether the OP was in deed about the same issue but it surely looks like it may have.

My car (m102.963) would behave just as described by the author here, I will not add or change anything to his description as this would create unnecessary confusion. This is what I have done before I got stuck. I changed the following:
- fuel pump
- fuel filter
- distributor
- leads
- plugs
- fresh fuel
- idle valve
- over charge relay
- fuel pump relay
- checked vacuum pipes
- checked fuel pipes.
Car would start, as soon as it did it died. RPM counter worked fine. Battery was charged at all times. If I sprayed fuel into fuel distributor car would run. Same with 3 plugs.

This was when I found this thread. It did not help as there was no conclusion to it. The obvious next step was to take the car out of the garage, cover it in petrol and set it alight. Watch it burn, move on.

As I spent countless hours welding it, fixing it and I actually do like it a lot, I decided to be methodical about it. I decided to go over everything once again. Starting from the rear moving to the engine side of things I started looking at the fuel system (we were certain it was fuelling issue). Right at the begging I realised I have not replaced both fuel pumps, so this was where I started. New Bosch fuel pump arrived, it went straight in, few turns of the key later system was pressurised. I turned the key, engine turned and the car was running. It was running like new, it never run so well. Most importantly it stayed running and it took me home.

I have no way of finding out if this was what made the OP's car go in the end (If he did get it going) but I hope it will help with keeping some of these old ladies on the road.

Good luck to y'all!

And my thoughts .I know this is an old post .But 2 things were not done the same old coil was used and first there was no fuel presure test done .