I went to my buddies house today and stuck a fuel pressure guage on it - now here is a potential problem - we dropped tha damn thing several times & broke the plxiglass front to the meter (kept falling off the inside of the hood), so not sure this thing is still accurate. I turned the key on & it jumped to 60 PSI right away, then dropped to about 20 PSI. We tried this several times, and basically the same thing. I can start it only after letting the pump cycle then shut off. After that, maybe a lil slow, it fires and runs fine. I plan on getting a fuel pressure gusage of my own & re-checking. My question is, if the pressure really dropped to 20 PSI, would it even run at all? I'm starting to think nut kit. When I had the intake manifold off, I didn't see any real signs of washing, except that area was a little cleaner than the rest of the manifold. This engine has less than 50K miles on it, so maybe this untrained eye wouldn't catch it? On a scale of 1-10 on the amount of carbon & varnish on the manifold, I would say this area was about 1 cleaner than the rest of the manifold. Nothing like the last engine where the drivers side was shiny clean & the passenger side was about a 7. I'm pretty confident with taking the intake off now. Should I try the nut kit? Would there be any other indications this was leaking?
Whew...
Thanks again!
Jon