I pushed the car the last hundred yards to the gas station, filled it up and now it won't run. Turns over, pops, snorts but no go, wound up towing it home.

91 CRX HF
B16a i/h/e, Command flo fpr

Fuel pressure gauge reads 38.
Fuel comes out of return line when fuel pump is on, bled a quart out.
Plugs are good and have spark.
Main relay is OEM 6 mths old and I hear it click.
Car ran great, no codes.

Any ideas?

 

maybe the fuel pump got fried?

 

I hear the pump prime and it squirts fuel out of the return line.

 

getting fuel at the fuel rail?

 

gotta be... fuel flow:
tank->filter->inlet hose->fuel rail->return hose->tank

 

heh, i knew that

any codes?

 

nope

 

pop the fuel line where it hits the rail...

if you ran the pump without fuel in it, you might have done two things....

1) burned up the pump, or threw the blades off it...the pump requires fuel to help cool it, and the blade requires the viscosity of the fuel to keep it from spinning too fast and fragmenting

2) you've got air trapped in the lines. most of the time this is not an issue in a injected car, but it can happen. by pulling the line off the rail and cranking the motor, the pump should fill the lines.

3) the bottom of your tank had **** in it, and now that **** is blocking the lines

pull the plug wires, or unplug the dizzy, and crank the motor with the fuel line off....gas should spray out heavily...if so hook it back up and pop the return line of the driver's end of the rail....same song second verse.
if both sides flow freely, it's not a fuel issue.