nailgunner wrote:
>
> I have a 2000 accent 4cyl. that died the other day.....while in
> traffic........and would not restart. Got it trailered to a shop my son
> works at and checked for spark. It had good juice to the plug so I checked
> for fuel and found none. It showed a half tank on guage. My son dropped the
> tank and pulled the fuel pump, carried the pump in and had it tested. It was
> bad so he bought a new one, put it back together and it still won't start.
> It shows good spark and I can pull a plug out and feel gas on the
> tip.............with spark and gas....why won't it start??????????
>
> nailgunner

(Not the Hyundai expert). I would measure fuel pressure or some
other way confirm that the new pump is *actually* pumping.
I don't think wetness is sufficient test in this case.

Speedy Jim
http://www.nls.net/mp/volks/

 

On Sun, 06 Jul 2003 09:00:27 -0400, Speedy Jim staggered into the Black
Sun and said:
> nailgunner wrote:
>> I have a 2000 accent 4cyl. that died the other day, while in traffic,
>> and would not restart. Got it trailered to a shop my son works at and
>> checked for spark. It had good juice to the plug so I checked for
>> fuel and found none. It showed a half tank on guage. My son dropped
>> the tank and pulled the fuel pump, carried the pump in and had it
>> tested. It was bad so he bought a new one, put it back together and
>> it still won't start. I can pull a plug out and feel gas on the
>> tip....
>
> (Not the Hyundai expert). I would measure fuel pressure or some other
> way confirm that the new pump is *actually* pumping. I don't think
> wetness is sufficient test in this case.

Sounds like good advice to me.

Another piece of info the OP forgot to mention: Was the starter motor
actually turning? If it was, that's good. If not, it probably means
the starter motor is broken. If the starter motor is turning, there's
adequate fuel pressure, and the sparkplugs are OK, one more thing to
check is the idle air control motor. You usually see symptoms (rough
idle, trouble starting) a week or 2 before that completely dies; if the
car was exhibiting those symptoms, it's a good idea to check.

Also remember that Hyundai makes a lot of their shop manuals available
to the general public at http://hmaservice.com/webtech/default.asp .
NOTE: Requires Internet Exploder 5.5 or higher, probably won't work on
a MacOS machine since the "web designers" used client-side VBScript(!).
The actual info is all in PDF or HTML; it's just the interface that's
brain-damaged. HTH,

--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
We're standing there pounding a dead parrot on the counter, and the
management response is to frantically swap in new counters to see if
that fixes the problem. --Peter Gutmann, ASR 6/18/1998