Q: No power to the fuel pumps

asked by on July 11, 2016

There is no power going to the fuel pumps. We changed all the relays over and still nothing. If we ground the wire at the plug for the computer where you connect an obd reader to we get the pumps to turn on. What would cause this problem

My car has 101000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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