New fuel pump woes

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205alive

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Sunday 30th October 2011
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205 GTi

Had a noisy fuel pump which packed in. Fitted the replacement and can hear it prime and run. There is fuel in the outlet hose so seems to be working as it should. However, the car still won't start. It was running fine until the pump failure.

The new pump is smaller than the original - new one listed here: http://www.driven2automotive.com/product.php?id_pr...

The engine turns over until the battery flattens. When I called recovery out, the AA guy got it running very breifly via some sort of quick start into the AFM so ignition etc fine.

Next step/s? Should I remove the fuel line off the rail and crank it?