97 SE HELP!!!
My car just died. My gas guage doesn't work but I have 250 miles on the trip. I do not hear the fuel pump at all and it used to be very noticeable. If I ran this out of gas is there a reset for the pump somewhere? Where is the is fuse for the pump located? Thanks for all the help
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From: In your garage, swipin' da lug nutz

There is no reset for the fuel pump (unlike Fords).
You will have any one of these issues:
1)Blown fuse. BUT...there is a reason why it blew, so you will need to find out why if this is the case.
2) Dead relay. This is entirely possible.
3) Dead pump....again, entirely possible
4) Dead PCM....least likely, but still possible.
Running out of gas on fuel injected cars is generally a bad thing. The fuel actually cools the pump down, and if run too long w/o fuel or low fuel, it will kill the pump prematurely.
You will have any one of these issues:
1)Blown fuse. BUT...there is a reason why it blew, so you will need to find out why if this is the case.
2) Dead relay. This is entirely possible.
3) Dead pump....again, entirely possible
4) Dead PCM....least likely, but still possible.
Running out of gas on fuel injected cars is generally a bad thing. The fuel actually cools the pump down, and if run too long w/o fuel or low fuel, it will kill the pump prematurely.
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From: In your garage, swipin' da lug nutz

99 percent of the time, there is always a way to check something for malfunctions
Before we go into ways of checking, we need to know...do you have, or have access to, a DMM (digital multimeter)? That is something that I think newborn baby boys should come equipped with
Before we go into ways of checking, we need to know...do you have, or have access to, a DMM (digital multimeter)? That is something that I think newborn baby boys should come equipped with


