Originally Posted by
RHarvey
Hi Jim,
Just a quick one, if you haven’t cured this yet, I had the same issue. Take the vacuum pipe off the fuel pressure regulator (the one which joins onto the intake manifold opposite cylinder 3), and start the car, if you’ve got fuel coming out of the regulator then it’s had it, the diaphragm inside the regulator will be shot, and allowing fuel down the vacuum pipe and into the manifold, therefore bore washing the cylinders, just like mine was! Let me know how you get on.
Yes, what you describe was exactly what I had found - fuel in the vacuum pipe from the FPR. New regulator and running nice now.