Q: No fuel pressure at all

asked by on October 23, 2016

Car was sputtering at first like the injectors were clogging up then all of a sudden it seemed like had run out of gas. We checked for fuel pressure at the rail and there is none. But if we spray starting fluid into intake it will start up and run. We checked the fuel pump relay and it's good. It also sounds like the pump is priming.

My car has 240000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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