Eureka!
I have bench tested the pump and it now puts fuel out the high pressure lines. Here's how I did it:
put the sprocket back on with the bolt finger tight, then grab a clean container, some fuel and a hose and connect the pump to the hose and put the hose in the container. Grab the timing belt and use the timing belt to turn the pump, it takes a little bit, but soon the pump is putting fuel out the return line.
At this point grab a battery charger and hook the positive to the solenoid on the pump and the negative to a good ground on the pump, then keep pumping, soon you will have fuel squirting out and going about 3-4 feet in little droplets.
Then you have at least a pump that puts fuel to the cylinders.
I'm going to go put my car back together.
Cullen
YAYS!
My car is together and starts again! I had to play around with the throttle lever position to get the motor to stop racing. But now all is well, however the motor is smoking and getting hot very fast. I think it's not timed correctly, but I'm not sure.
I think I will recheck my timing again and see if perhaps I have that set wrong. (It could be, I went by memory on the numbers and I have an inch gauge instead of a metric gauge.)
Cullen
getting hot fast you say... i would suspect advanced timing... the smoke could be from too much fuel too.
time that thing bang on 1.00mm and it should be good to go!
1mm? I was timing it to .89mm or whatever my haynes says. (Granted it's also for a rabbit) But it's quicker now, and when I pull out the cold start lever it doesn't smoke at idle.
I'm going to retime it today with the help of another diesel nut in the area. (He's rebuilding a Golf and needs to know which wires go where, and my car is working at least electrically.)
So we'll see, but I'm quite happy with the new life in my old tired diesel.
Cullen