you may a stuck or fused fuel pump relay which is also a common problem
"tomb" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> disallow wrote:
>
> | BUT, there is this blade fuse in line with a wire
> | coming directly off of the positive terminal of
> | the battery. Apparently, it feeds the fuel pump
> | relay. Its a 30 Amp fuse.
> |
> | Anyways, when I pulled that fuse, the draw on the
> | battery went from 0.87amps to 0.01amps. I'm
> | thinking my problem is there.
>
> 800mA certainly doesn't sound right for "idle current".
>
> | Any ideas on how to fix this? Once the power goes
> | to the relay, where would it go from there?
>
> Don't know much (anything about Volvos, but on a regular Civic it would
> go through the "main relay" into the ECU, which keep it at an open circuit
> until it wants to power the fuel pump. You wouldn't happen to have any
> schematics of any sort, would you?
>
> I hope your fuel pump is not running 24/7? (or at least until the battery
is
> dead...)
>
> A quick google shows that Volvo's of that generation have problems with
wire
> harnesses quite a bit (insulation eroding away? wtf?
>
> http://personal.linkline.com/dbarton/WireHarnesses.html
>
>