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No electricity to fuel pump, what are most likely problems? fuse is good, checked fuel pump relay, when key is on, only one wire of 5 is hot.

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CHECK FUEL PUMP WIRING.IT HAS A SHORT IN IT.

  • Jonah Oneal Sep 11, 2009

    TRY ANOTHER FUEL PUMP RELAY.IF RELAY IS GOOD.HAVE CAR SCAN TO MAKE SURE YOUR PCM IS WORKING .SEE YOUR PCM HAS DRIVER CIRCUIT BOARD THAT CONTROL FUEL PUMP + INJECTORS + IDLING AND TRANSMISSION SHIFT.IF DRIVER CIRCUIT IN PCM GO BAD YOU HAVE TO REPLACE THE PCM.

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Relays require two hot wires one to energize the solenoid that draws the contacts together inside the relay and the other hot wire to provide electricity that passes through the contact to the fuel pump. Obtain a electrical wiring schematic for the truck then identify the wire that should be hot and trace the wire to locate its source, check the wire for continuity and if the source electricity supply is present.

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My Suzuki areo fuel pump is not kicking in and making buzzing under hood even after changing pump.Already checked relay.

i see you are guessing?
did you check all engine related fuses? that be first.
with a $20 DMM volt meter , the guessing ends.
the electrics form 2 paths,
1: power
2: ground
if either are bad, the pump fails. (suzuki love to do this)

when you turn the key, the ECU/PCM , energizes
the fuel pump relay,
if you have no power to the relay the relay will be dead.
the relay then passes pump power to the pump, on the pink wire
on most suzuki's state side (no location stated)
the pink wires goes hot (12v) for 3 seconds each key on.
if not the relay is bad, or the power to it is bad or the ECU is bad.
if you lose ground to the relay , the ecu or the pump. the pump
will be dead.
using a voltmeter allows you to find this simple failure.
lets pretend the pink wire is hot.
you key on, pink goes 12v , for 3seconds but the pump is silent.
1: the pump has 2 wires , not 1.
one or the other is open.
2: if you see 12v on the pumps ground wire for 3 seconds key on.that means the pump ground is dead open.
the voltmeter will not lie to you , use it and find the problem easy.
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