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Are you saying a bad wire connection ground or whatever would cause a fuse to blow? In the 98 LeSabre it would stall. Act like it was out of gas and not start for a hour or so. Never blew a fuse. It was a bad ground in the door.
I dropped the tank to try a different pump. After I dropped it I checked the voltage at the fuel sender plug. It read 8.25 volts. A friend said to switch the relay. So whatever I did, same reading. So I am suppose to have around 12 volts correct? So bad wire bad ground bad connection is likely the problem correct? The wires going along the passenger side of the car do not look bad, it is rusty by the door but the wires were well wrapped. In the trunk where the wires from the sender go in that part is very rusty and there seems to be some kind of ground at that spot that I think you call a quick connect terminal connect ground that is extremely rusty. See pics of trunk and wires into car.
I would test upstream of that wire, like at the fuse block, and figure out where the voltage drops. If it is reading 8.25v at the fuse block then your issue is upstream from that.
Are you saying a bad wire connection ground or whatever would cause a fuse to blow? In the 98 LeSabre it would stall. Act like it was out of gas and not start for a hour or so. Never blew a fuse. It was a bad ground in the door.
A poor connection is a source of resistance. As current flows through it warms and that increases it'* resistance. These types of shorts don't blow fuses as all they do is rob the devise (fuel pump in this case) of available voltage which in the case of a fuel pump it will slow.
I dropped the tank to try a different pump. After I dropped it I checked the voltage at the fuel sender plug. It read 8.25 volts. A friend said to switch the relay. So whatever I did, same reading. So I am suppose to have around 12 volts correct? So bad wire bad ground bad connection is likely the problem correct? The wires going along the passenger side of the car do not look bad, it is rusty by the door but the wires were well wrapped. In the trunk where the wires from the sender go in that part is very rusty and there seems to be some kind of ground at that spot that I think you call a quick connect terminal connect ground that is extremely rusty. See pics of trunk and wires into car.
"So whatever I did, same reading. So I am suppose to have around 12 volts correct? So bad wire bad ground bad connection is likely the problem correct?"
Yes, you should have 12-v to the pump! It looks like you have finally found the source of the problem!
What is the easiest way to fix this? You bolded bad ground. So you're saying its a ground problem? What if I tapped into the ground line going to the pump and made a separate ground for it to somewhere good?
