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Edward Kavcak Posted on Oct 23, 2009
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The fuel pump of my Saturn is not getting a signal. It will run if I jumper the relay and I will get fuel to the fuel bar. The relay tested good and I also tried swapping relays. Any ideas of what to try.

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The crank sensor has to send a signal to the computer to activate the fuel pump.if there is no rpm signal,the pump will not come on.
the alarm can disable the pump on some cars as well.
a defective fuel pressure switch can also shut down the pump.

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