Hot starting problem, the final catch 22

[twagner@mail.island.net (Tom Wagner (guru of old stuff))]

The facts are all in, now for the solution.  

There is no retained pressure in the injectors.  I have turned the vehicle
almost upside down and can't find the non-return valve.  Is it in fuel pump?
If not has to be under the vehicle.  None of the other places mentioned in
the manual are valid.

When cranked cold, the fuel pump comes on with the starter motor.  When hot
the fuel pump does not start till the engine fires, the manual says that is
to prevent overloading if there is a stuck injector.  There is the catch 22.
No pressure to pump gas into the injectors, no start.  No start no fuel pump
(unless cold).  So until I get pressure holding in the injector rail when
the thing has been parked, I have to fool it to get the pump running (read
keep trying to start it in short bursts).

Now does that sound like the problem one of us has had with the car not
starting at all?  If the cold start circuit doesn't work and there is no
pressure held in the fuel rail the odds of it starting at all are pretty
well zero!

BTW, this is a series 3, manufactured late 1979, sold as an 1980.  

Tom, who now has a shiny new fuel pressure guage mounted under the hood...

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