<r2000swler@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I suspect you would have to get a Civic up to speed, pop
> the clutch and turn the ignition switch all at about the
> same time.
>



No, you can turn the ignition on first, then do the push thing. As Mista
Bone says, use 2nd gear.

The main relay supplies voltage to the fuel pump as long as the ECU sees
that the engine is *turning* and the ignition is on. It reads the pulses
from the Crank Angle Sensor inside the distributor to know this. The engine
does not actually have to be *running*.

There is a secondary (redundant) power feed for the fuel pump that is only
activated when the ignition switch start contacts are closed, but this does
not affect the primary feed through IG1.

Now if the battery were totally dead and the car had not been run for a few
days, would you have trouble bump-starting the car unless enough fuel were
still in the fuel rail to allow the engine to fire?


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