DirtE30 - 1990 BMW 325i
Orange spark.... low battery... headlights cutting in and out....

I’m calling electrical or a bad ground somewhere.

#1 - charge your battery
#2 - make sure when you were screwing around with your fuel lines you didn’t knock a ground off the firewall to the intake / engine block.

I bet if you found a good piece of wire and grounded your engine block to the battery it would start right up.
Why do people just post what they are thinking? Without thinking.

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Charging battery now.

My method removing the old fuel lines was pushing with a screwdriver under the car while Zach yanked on them from the top. I agree with your idea we broke a ground. I searched and search and found nothing, but I'll keep looking next time I'm out there.

As for now, I've got a float charger on it.

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Charged the battery up and still no start. Cranked until I got a 1223 code. I'll try replacing that sensor, but that's the code I've had intermittently before my no start issues in the past.

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Did you do something really stupid like reverse the fuel return with the inlet?
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I've double and triple checked that this is not the case. Unless the fuel pressure regulator is on the return side? Tell me that's not the case. I haven't been able to find the appropriate diagrams. I have the line from the filter going to the regulator, then the lower line directly from the rail goes back to the tank.


Oh man... The more I think about it, the more I think that could be wrong.

Edit: fuck
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Yea.... FPR is normally on the return side Wink
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Well yay, now it's running!

Sell it.
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ViPER1313 Wrote:Did you do something really stupid like reverse the fuel return with the inlet?


Senor_Taylor Wrote:fuck


lol

got eem
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I don't think it's honestly that crazy of a mistake considering the surprising lack of diagrams, and some fuel systems have regulators on the feed line.

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(02-13-2018, 10:37 AM)Jake Wrote: Well yay, now it's running!

Sell it.

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Buyer coming from New York to trailer the E30 back for damn near asking price. Just like that, a clean slate.

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(02-18-2018, 09:40 PM)Senor_Taylor Wrote: Buyer coming from New York to trailer the E30 back for damn near asking price. Just like that, a clean slate.

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You get him to put a deposit on it?
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(02-18-2018, 11:01 PM)Jake Wrote:
(02-18-2018, 09:40 PM)Senor_Taylor Wrote: Buyer coming from New York to trailer the E30 back for damn near asking price. Just like that, a clean slate.

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You get him to put a deposit on it?
Yup, working on that now.

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Are e30s that hard to find he has to drive from NY?
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A rust free Delphin Grey E30 is. This car isn't as shitty as you'd think. I'm just brutally honest when I describe what's wrong. This guy has a rusted out Delphin Sedan he'll swap some parts on to and have a solid car.

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So what next?

C5, si, CTS, or E36?

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Porsche Boxster S.
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My mind is made up on a reasonable, well taken care of E46 330i. I know it's a car most of y'all would have as a college beater, but it's what I want and it will do what I need.

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have you considered buying a boat?
(09-25-2019, 03:18 PM)V1GiLaNtE Wrote: I think you need to see a mental health professional.
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