Originally Posted by Grant Francis

Mmmmmm.

Back to basics, skip what you have checked.

Has it got spark, a spare spark plug in the end of any easy to get at plug lead will determine this.

Are the injectors "clicking", if not, then the shielded wire is highly suspect. It also informs the ECU that there is ignition pulse present, so injection activity is maintained.

The CTS (coolant temp sensor) in the rear of the LH thermostat base is required for engine running, and the wires inside the plug are flimsy at best, and break very often, and the engine is dead without this sensor giving its reading to the ECU.

The module inside the ignition amp may be hissy, it controls spark (suggestion 1), and also the signal to that shielded wire.

I am still trying to get my head around the "starts without fuel pump plugged in, and zero with it plugged in", as it basically makes no sense at the moment. It must be getting fuel from somewhere to actually "fire". Thinking as I type on that. The "main relay" in the RED socket in the boot, switches the ECU "ON", and the fuel pump relay "ON", so if the fuel pump relay/fuel pump is suspect, the main relay may be switching itself OFF, due to that issue, then with the pump unplugged, the fault is not sensed, so the "main relay" stays "ON", so the ECU is active, as is the EFI system, so engine "fire" occurs, plug the pump in, and the fault returns, so the relay cuts off, as does the ECU and the EFI system, hence a dead engine. If that makes sense.

All this still does not get my head around the rotor and cap replacement causing it???????.

Originally Posted by Greg Edge

Grant,

My thinking on his description is he is cranking like crazy and it gets flooded then he disconnects the fuel pump and it burns off all that fuel for a short run and of course then dies.

Originally Posted by Doug

i fully agree it is very difficult to slog through a posting when everything in blurred together in one giant run-on sentence with no caps no paragraphs no punctuation and this is especially true for oldsters like me who have tired eyes and wear bifocals ha ha if everyone would just take a couple extra minutes to compose their postings so as to be easily read and understood by those who are trying to assist it would make life so much easier this isn't a matter of being the grammer ooops grammar police but instead simply a matter of effective communication of sometimes tricky and technical information so please edit postings for clarity before hitting the submit reply button and remember there's no shame in using paragraphs to be honest there are times where id like to help but the way the questions or situations are presented it makes it very difficult to even know where to begin personaly id rather devote more effort into solving problems and less effort trying to read and understand what the other guy is saying just my lousy two cents on the matter :-)