clowe1965
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Spent about two hours searching but couldn't find it on here anywhere.
I have a 92 3.0 ranger currently holding a 68 302 in it. I've got a mallory return style regulator and a 500 CFM edelbrock. I've got two problems currently.
First, and most annoying, is the fuel setup. There are three lines from what I can tell. Two, which come into the engine compartment via braided SS hoses and went into the fuel injection rails are now cut back by the fuel filter. One is still running through the filter. The other joins the filtered line in a Tee and then goes out to the regulator. This is strange but assuming these were the pressurized lines I duplicated the factory setup with only one of the lines filtered. The third line, closest to the firewall and using a rubber hose to connect to the steel line, was assumed to be the return line and is now plumbed as such with the relief port of the pressure regulator.
The issue is that the fuel gets through the pressure regulator, up to the inline sight filter and then stops. I don't get a build up of pressure, no matter what adjustment I make to the regulator. 0-1 psi. My best guess is that I have the fuel lines mixed up and have the pressure line Tee'd with the return line, giving me flow (checked, pumped about 5 gallons out in the cleaning process) but with any head on the line (the second filter) it goes back through the return. If that is the case then what is the third line that I'm trying to use as the return?
Second problem is I'm not getting power to the electrical coil. I have not bypassed the clutch switch, but when pressed down (with the hoses cut prior to running the new setup) I get nothing. From what I can find in the chilton manual there shouldn't be a reason for this, unless the clutch switch operates off pressure. Thoughts?
FYI not a new guy, had a s/n that somehow got changed, went from cazandoenmicoche to fordsrus (still not sure how that happened, just magically changed one day) and now made a new s/n.
I have a 92 3.0 ranger currently holding a 68 302 in it. I've got a mallory return style regulator and a 500 CFM edelbrock. I've got two problems currently.
First, and most annoying, is the fuel setup. There are three lines from what I can tell. Two, which come into the engine compartment via braided SS hoses and went into the fuel injection rails are now cut back by the fuel filter. One is still running through the filter. The other joins the filtered line in a Tee and then goes out to the regulator. This is strange but assuming these were the pressurized lines I duplicated the factory setup with only one of the lines filtered. The third line, closest to the firewall and using a rubber hose to connect to the steel line, was assumed to be the return line and is now plumbed as such with the relief port of the pressure regulator.
The issue is that the fuel gets through the pressure regulator, up to the inline sight filter and then stops. I don't get a build up of pressure, no matter what adjustment I make to the regulator. 0-1 psi. My best guess is that I have the fuel lines mixed up and have the pressure line Tee'd with the return line, giving me flow (checked, pumped about 5 gallons out in the cleaning process) but with any head on the line (the second filter) it goes back through the return. If that is the case then what is the third line that I'm trying to use as the return?
Second problem is I'm not getting power to the electrical coil. I have not bypassed the clutch switch, but when pressed down (with the hoses cut prior to running the new setup) I get nothing. From what I can find in the chilton manual there shouldn't be a reason for this, unless the clutch switch operates off pressure. Thoughts?
FYI not a new guy, had a s/n that somehow got changed, went from cazandoenmicoche to fordsrus (still not sure how that happened, just magically changed one day) and now made a new s/n.