sup guys hopefully i can get this fixed by the weekend but this is what happened… i replaced my fuel filter today with an oem acura one. now my car has a very hard time starting… i turn the key and it takes like 10 OR EVEN more cranks for it to actually start! really weird because my car always starts up right away! what do u guys think? and before i start the car. i can hear the fuel pump priming… indicating that the fuel pump is still good right? thanks in advance for everybody’s input
I dunno man…my fuel pump primes and I think it’s pretty much shot.
your thinking my fuel pump is shot?
No, that’s not what I’m saying. I’m just saying just because you hear it prime, doesn’t mean it’s really working and pumping fuel.
Did you re-install the lines in the correct spots? That’s strange that it started fine then suddenly didn’t. Did you do anything else besides the filter?
Do what I did…hook up a fuel pressure gauge on top of the fuel filter and check for pressure.
@da6yo nope all i changed out was my fuel filter…
@usdm420 u mean a fuel pressure regulator? i think im going to put that on my shopping list lol
im going to take off the distributor on my 4 door db1 and see if it fires up my da… if so… then i have a bad distributor! HOPFULLY this solves it… ill get back to u guys! thanks
i also installed a new main fuel relay and a pretty mint condition oem starter
No, I mean a fuel pressure GAUGE.
before you go and change something else you need to go back the the fuel filter.
Take it off and look inside the bolts ontop of the filter. They have a specific way that they flow, try to mark on the head the direction so that the opening points to the fuel line comming out to the fuel rail.
[QUOTE=da6xsi06;2251540]before you go and change something else you need to go back the the fuel filter.
Take it off and look inside the bolts ontop of the filter. They have a specific way that they flow, try to mark on the head the direction so that the opening points to the fuel line comming out to the fuel rail.[/QUOTE]
Weird. I never heard anyone ever say that the bolt holding the line to the filter needs to face a specific direction.
A member on here let a “mechanic” replace his fuel filter, the inlet and outlet we’re backwards on the filter. Pointing out arrow goes to the fuel rail.
The bolt itself doesn’t have to face a certain way… the fitting is grooved on the inside so fuel flows all around no matter where the little hole in the bolt is at.
But you do need to make sure you have the correct line that flows in and correct line that flows out in the correct places.