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Old 04-01-2005, 10:34 AM
Jim H Jim H is offline
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Originally Posted by r_p_ryan
...There is a considerable volume of fuel in your car's plumbing that would need to be burned through before the bad gas/water would reach the injectors. If it was several minutes after driving away from the station that the shudder started then I might consider bad gas, but immediately when pulling away from the pump? I just can't see the gas causing that.
Robert
Actually, the fuel pump delivers far more fuel to the injectors than is injected, and the excess is returned to the tank. It will not take long for fuel at the inlet strainer to travel through the inlet tubing to the pump, to the inector rail, and back to the tank.

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Jim
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