Pontiac Repair: 1989 pontiac sunbird le, 1989 pontiac sunbird, fuel pressure regulator

Question
I have a 1989 pontiac sunbird le 2.0 I was driving it one day and the engine just shut down. There was no fuel getting to the engine at all. We just replaced the fuel pump and my husband checked that it runs fine we disconnected the fuel pressure switch and it ran. I looked down where the fuel goes in and it is dumping fuel like alot of it. I believe it is flooding itself out and then when it gets warm it wont turn over. Would this be the fuel pressure regulator? Please help I need my car back :) Thanks

Answer
Hi Kristina:

Well it can be a lot of things. It could be a fuel injetor that it leaking It could be a pressure regulator that is keeping the fuel pressure too high. The fuel pump could be the wrong won for the car and it has too much pressure and the regulator can't handle it. Is the pump an AC delco pump? or an aftermarket pump? You had no issues with this car up till the point when it died origianlly? If so I would look ay what you replaced at the root casue of what is going on now. If it was acting up before hand then you could have some sort of an underlying problem.. I'm not a fan of ANY AFTERMARKET electrical parts fo any car. wether it's a ford, Toyota or GM only use Original equipment electrical parts. Hope that gives you some direction to go. good luck :)