Leatherman:

With the pressure valve out, what you see is not the pump delivering fuel under pressure but the point where the plunger closes off the fuel fill slot in the sleeve, or more exactly the point where it will start to pressurize the fuel to inject it.

With further rotation of the engine, more fuel will of course be pushed out, but the engine isn't rotating..

I also forgot to mention that the control rod has to be wired down in the full "throttle" posistion, or the injection timing will be wrong.

Peter

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