97 Eagle Talon (2L) ESI wont start

thanks man :tup:

we swapped in new plugs/wires (needed 'em anyway) and put in a new fuel filter. Tried it again and still nothing.

we double checked all the fuses and everything looked good. So I decided to use a volt meter and check the harness coming off of the fuel pump harness and it was getting power… but the pump harness was not.

We tried looking under the hood for the relay (there are 3 relays right next to each other on the firewall)… we couldn’t figure out which was which as they all were stamped with the same part number. so we just tried swapping them around to see what would happen.

still nothing… so in a last ditch effort, as it was getting late/cold, I decided to cut the harness to the pump and run the wires to a spare battery and sure as shit, the pump turned on.

so now we have to figure out if the problem is in the wiring, or if it’s the relay or a fuse that we might have missed. The car’s been sitting for a year or so… so it’s possible a mouse could of chewed on the harness causing a short or something.

Do you have an electrical schematic for these cars? If worse comes to worse, we may just rewire the pump.

thanks again for the help man
-Steve