Fuel Not Getting There, Troubleshoot How? (2025 Update)

Tom Adkins

Nehmo - You don't mean "available online"; you mean available for *purchase* online. If that's not what you mean, please provide the link. I'd like to go to the Ford site and look up my wiring diagram or power distribution box layout. Many companies provide the entire service information for their products online. This isn't the case with the auto companies.

But the issue is moot for me now. I'll be able to get the info today.

-- (||) Nehmo (||)

It turned out the parts store sold me the wrong relay, but the correct one in the truck tests OK. If anybody wants the Ford Ranger 2001 3.0L Battery Junction Box Fuse and Relay Diagram:

wouldn't you think that a reset button would be "in a depressed state - when normally closed"?

dunno

mho v=83e

most fuel rails have a service port that is easily gotten to, it is on top of the left / outside fuel rail with a black screw cap covering the schrader valve, it's about the size of an ac hipressure line valve cap, which also uses a schrader valve.

I have used a an ac service line hose with a depressing device in it, and a container to catch any gasoline moving through the system. (also handy to relieve line pressure when changing the fuel filter)

put the other end of the hose in the container to catch any gasoline before you connect to the schrader valve.

mho v=83e

Red seems like trip to me as in a curcuit breaker...

Gerald

A mechanic at the Ford dealer didn't know anything about the red stripe on the inertia switch but assured me "if you can't push the button, then it isn't tripped". The red might mean there still is danger of fuel pumping.

Yes, I'd like to test the connector for electricity, but where the connector is isn't obvious.

I did learn that the parts stores were quoting me on the wrong pump. I looked it up myself on

It's no wonder most places around here are vacant. Between the government and the other criminals, it's impossible to live here.

I realize this is irrelevant to the thread, but you understand it's on my mind.

-- (||) Nehmo (||)

That would not trip the fuel safety switch, it requires of force of more than one 'G' to disengage

mike hunt

Thanks, you freaking genius. This happens regularly on Ford vehicles. Call it a bad switch or whatever. Anything that exists on a car can malfunction. A hard stop with a certain type of failure mode on the mechanism does set it off. I was there. I pushed the button and the car would then start instantly. Apparently, you know only what you read about the way things are supposed to be theoretically in a textbook. Meanwhile, the rest of us are forced to actually get things done on the road. Your only tool must be your checkbook and your cell phone.

Thanks, you freaking genius. This happens regularly on Ford vehicles. Call it a bad switch or whatever. Anything that exists on a car can malfunction. A hard stop with a certain type of failure mode on the mechanism does set it off. I was there. I pushed the button and the car would then start instantly. Apparently, you know only what you read about the way things are supposed to be theoretically in a textbook. Meanwhile, the rest of us are forced to actually get things done on the road. Your only tool must be your checkbook and your cell phone.