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    HPFP Twice?

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    Good day all, I don't get on here much anymore, life, wife, kids, more life, mortgage.

    Back in 2020 / 2021 I was having intermittent issues with hesitation, MAF codes, something about the gyroscope, would always set off the TPMS (why I don't know)... pulling my hair out kind of stuff. Finally took it to a shop to diagnose and they called me before I got home. HPFP had an internal leak letting fuel down into the crankcase. Sure enough, fixed the problem.

    Fast forward to today and I had the same problem yesterday. Wtf??, twice now. I don't think I've put 7,000 miles on the car (it's not my DD..sigh... that's a minivan these days:( )

    Does that seem feasible? I've read that it could be fuel injectors, but I think it's HPFP again. I had a few hesitations like 3 weeks ago but it cleared up quick and without codes, yesterday I got a little hesitation, no codes and then later all the same lights came on at startup as it did before with the HPFP but without any hesitation. Pulled the oil cap when I got home and sure enough I smell fuel.

    Just want to make sure I'm on the right track or if I need to look elsewhere. Part I replaced last time and ordered again this time is Hitachi HPP0010. Car will sit until I can swap and do oil change. Appreciate any input, still appreciate this site and all it's done for me over the years. I hope to be back in full swing one day.

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    Anything is possible. That would suck if the replacement HPFP didn't last very long. But if that's where the issue is, that's where it is. I've got 255k on mine, and never had such an issue with the HPFP. And some have problems with injectors failing open. I've replaced mine for slowing clogging up over time. Unfortunately, there's no means for normal people to test these devices for leakage issues like that. All you can do is replace and see if there's any change. The injectors could be sent off for testing, but if you've already had to pull them to get to that point, might as well just spend the money to replace them and be done with it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Smac770 View Post
    Anything is possible. That would suck if the replacement HPFP didn't last very long. But if that's where the issue is, that's where it is. I've got 255k on mine, and never had such an issue with the HPFP. And some have problems with injectors failing open. I've replaced mine for slowing clogging up over time. Unfortunately, there's no means for normal people to test these devices for leakage issues like that. All you can do is replace and see if there's any change. The injectors could be sent off for testing, but if you've already had to pull them to get to that point, might as well just spend the money to replace them and be done with it.
    Thanks.

    I haven't pulled anything yet, just wanted to bounce around some ideas before I do tear anything apart. The fact that it's acting the same way has me thinking it's the HPFP, but I'm always open to ideas. To test the injectors I guess I can pull the plugs to see if I smell / see fuel on them.

    I do have a genuine Ross Tech that I can test some things with... gosh has that come in handy over the years!

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    Well I rolled the dice and bought another Hitachi fuel pump. I figured it was somewhat easy enough to swap out. That was it. Car has driven perfect for over a week now.

    That's crazy.

    Just wanted to update the thread with what the solution was. By all rights it shouldn't have been the fuel pump again in 2 years but it was.

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    Dammit man.. I waited over a week to make that post and surr enough had the same issues last night and now more fuel in the crankcase. Wtf... has to be injectors at this point.

    I just thought that with the issue being so intermittent that it was the HPFP again. Damn.. she ran great for over a week. Zero issues at all.

    Ordered from FCP.. it doesn't look to hard. I've had it off before to clean headers and valves.

    What a bummer.

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    That sucks. But yeah, they're easy(ish) to replace, and not that expensive (compare to the six no-aftermarket options ones in the V6). Hopefully that closes out that issue for you.
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    So, hwo was your experience check, with it? It went fine, or you switched to some other choice qatar visa, rob?
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    Quote Originally Posted by noumansaeed View Post
    So, hwo was your experience with it? It went fine, or you switched to some other choice, rob?
    I've been waiting to make sure I didn't stick my foot in my mouth (again) to make sure the issue was resolved. So far seems all good. I ordered injectors from FCP as others have posted here, but they didn't come with the little plastic triangle "holders" and 2 of mine broke taking everything apart. I ordered a reseal kit on Amazon that included them for ~ $20, so that took 2 days to get there. Other than that it was all pretty straight forward. If I had those parts I'd have had it done in a little over 2 hours I think.

    I think it was a 3 or 4/10 on the hard scale. Just have to really take your time with the plugs so nothing gets broken.

    While I was in there I looked at the valves, I cleaned them about 20K ago, they're not as bad as they were, but they're worse then I thought they would be after only 20K. I should do them again in the next 10K or so. So if you're reading this you might want to be prepared to do that while in there. I used walnut shell and that was pretty easy last time. But it was cold last week and I didn't feel like messing with it.

    All seems good so far.

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    Thanks so much for posting you progress. Super helpful to those that follow. So many people post the issue by never the resolution.
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    Quote Originally Posted by GIACuser View Post
    Thanks so much for posting you progress. Super helpful to those that follow. So many people post the issue by never the resolution.
    FUCK.... drove fine for over a week, last night TPMS lights, ESC lights and threw codes P0299, P013F, P0101

    It was losing power so I pulled over and disconnected the MAF, drove fine after that... WTF man, so disheartening:(

    I looked up P0299, that looks like just a boost leak, but could be the whole damn turbo actuator... that's scary to think about.

    P0101 is the MAF, I ordered one but I'm wondering if it's a wiring issue somewhere.

    ALSO... crankcase still smells like fuel, but it could very well be residual from before... I've changed the oil twice in the last 3 weeks... dammit man

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    Should add I'm not concerned about the P013F, I have a HFC and that pops up every once in a while with the spacer.

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    Follow up? How's it been driving so far? I previously had my car tuned on IE and began having fuel delivery issues, first replaced lpfp and recently hpfp

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    Quote Originally Posted by DankeyWang View Post
    Follow up? How's it been driving so far? I previously had my car tuned on IE and began having fuel delivery issues, first replaced lpfp and recently hpfp
    What type of map were you having issues with?! I was running their E85 flash on my B9 S5 and when I’d give it hard throttle off the line it’d completely boggle on me as if the car had completely just died on me upon that hard acceleration.


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    I was on 91. I had similar issues with bogging and just super slow acceleration.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DankeyWang View Post
    Follow up? How's it been driving so far? I previously had my car tuned on IE and began having fuel delivery issues, first replaced lpfp and recently hpfp
    Well, I'm back to square 1. I unplugged the MAF for the time being and it seems to run great. It's something with the MAF, maybe a bad ground or something. Anyone know where the ground is located on that? I've looked around online, can't find a diagram.

    Edit: I found this post; "The MAF is pretty simple wiring, pin 1 green (frequency signal) directly to the ECU, pin 2 brown/blue (ground) directly to the ECU, pin 3 black/violet (12v) directly to the ECU and also to fuse panel B, fuse 3. Maybe some wiring is fraying and shorting against something? It would be interesting to have a scope log of the signal on pin 1 when that event occurs. SSP notes: "The range of frequencies can oscillate between 1200 Hz for a kg/hr. air mass, up to 3900 Hz for a 640 kg/hr. air mass."

    The car runs FINE without the MAF plugged in. Once plugged in I can drive for maybe 1 hr or maybe a week, all depends. Regardless at some point I get the TPMS lights and the EPC light flashing and it jerks. I was tearing my hair out a year ago trying to figure this out so I took it to a shop to diagnose, they said it was a bad HPFP, so I replaced it (good thing as there was fuel in the crankcase). The issue was fixed for like 3 weeks and then popped up again. Since then I replaced the MAF. That worked for about 10 days and I thought I was in the clear. Nope... back to square 1.

    I am really just not sure what to do. If I log the MAF what would I be looking for to be off? I would think the readings will be wonky, but what does that tell me?

    You know what's nuts, I've been chasing this issue since 2019. At first it was so intermittent but now it's a lot more constant. It has to be a wiring / short / grounding issue.

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    The only value you can see from the MAF at the J623 measuring values level is the g/s value. Which should be 2-5 at idle and up to 160 at WOT in the upper rpm range, if stock and all working. The last blockmap I had made of my J623 measuring values, "air mass: actual" idling was 2.7 g/s. This was at normal idle, not a cold start high idle.

    Having a value from the MAF, the ECM believes it knows the amount of air coming into the engine. It then adjusts the fuel injector duration based on the lambda sensor. If the necessary duration to achieve the intended lambda is longer (more fuel), the long term fuel trim will be positive. Too high, needing to add to much fuel, you get an error state. The opposite if not as much air is there as expected, the injector pulse is reduced and you get negative fuel trim. Are your long term idle and long term mix fuel trims abnormal? I'd say more than ±5 for idle and ±10 for mix would be "something is off".

    When the MAF is not connected, the ECM uses predefined maps as an assumption of engine operation, rather than the live data value.

    You'd need to have been looking at the measuring values after a fix and see what changed, and what returned to out of spec afterwards, to get some angle on where the change is occurring.

    Could be wiring, could be the ECM itself.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Smac770 View Post
    The only value you can see from the MAF at the J623 measuring values level is the g/s value. Which should be 2-5 at idle and up to 160 at WOT in the upper rpm range, if stock and all working. The last blockmap I had made of my J623 measuring values, "air mass: actual" idling was 2.7 g/s. This was at normal idle, not a cold start high idle.

    Having a value from the MAF, the ECM believes it knows the amount of air coming into the engine. It then adjusts the fuel injector duration based on the lambda sensor. If the necessary duration to achieve the intended lambda is longer (more fuel), the long term fuel trim will be positive. Too high, needing to add to much fuel, you get an error state. The opposite if not as much air is there as expected, the injector pulse is reduced and you get negative fuel trim. Are your long term idle and long term mix fuel trims abnormal? I'd say more than ±5 for idle and ±10 for mix would be "something is off".

    When the MAF is not connected, the ECM uses predefined maps as an assumption of engine operation, rather than the live data value.

    You'd need to have been looking at the measuring values after a fix and see what changed, and what returned to out of spec afterwards, to get some angle on where the change is occurring.

    Could be wiring, could be the ECM itself.
    My MAF readings (to me) look ok, nothing abnormal. The STFT start to get wonky almost right away (go from 0 to -23 then back to normal), the LTFT take about 10 min before they get out of wack at which point I can feel the car start to hesitate (time stamp 1061.74 in the 1st column). That's when the LTFT also go out of wack. They go -10.9 all the way to -30.5. Then I get a CEL.

    This is obviously not my strong suit, any idea what could cause all this behavior?

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    So after more research and reaching out over at the Ross Tech forums I need to do a heat soak test for fuel pressure and see if any fuel pressure leaks down. I don't know why as I've pretty much replaced everything fuel related (but the car is still pulling fuel, so maybe I bought dud injectors / or HPFP.. idk). Easy enough test to rule it out.

    While I'm at it need to do a smoke test at some point and see if I have any boost leaks anywhere. To me the car running rich and pulling fuel like that would either mean I have a boost leak and air is escaping or something in the fuel system is leaking (on top of the HPFP that was leaking).

    Any other ideas what to look at?

    On the Ross tech forum they were also pretty adamant about getting a genuine OE MAF and not buying a Hitachi MAF0116 from somewhere like Rock Auto (which is where I got mine). My logs for the MAF look pretty linear to me.. I mean nothing jumps out (to me), so I don't know. The thing is, I have had the same issue with ~ 3 different MAF's so I don't think that's it. The wiring to the ECU from the MAF could always be messed up though.

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    Sorry, never got back to you on the CSV. One, it looks like you didn't do it "Group UDS". That runs up to 8 queries per call, so you get time synced results. But the ECM won't take more than that in one query, so if you want to do 9-12 values, you need to set the Split option. So instead of all the values queried every 0.2 sec, each one is queried in sequence. With four values, that means a value is queried only every 0.8 sec.

    Also, normalized load (IDE00085) is always good to log. That's a reflection of the engine load. As well as engine speed (engine rpm, whatever they are calling it, IDE00021). Without these, it's hard to know what's going on with the engine and what the values should be reflecting.

    Air mass specified value, interesting. I don't have that on my MY09 CAEB. But 8K5907115C is also a CAEB, for MY13. Must be something they added at some point. Yeah, no IDE00350 on mine. I wonder if that would be interesting to track.

    Yeah, if we add short+long and look at that, at 635sec, it gets weird and just goes very large rich (it's going massive negative trim, which is a cut of the injector pulse, because it thinks things are rich, and it's trying to cut that back to balanced). But I have no idea what was going on with the engine at that moment. The g/s is not idle, but not heavy load either. The long term stays fine through the sequence, it's the short term going all over.

    That's not an idle moment, but maybe it was a throttle release? Good to log accelerator pedal as well. You see how it starts to add up the values to get a clear picture. Thus important to run Group UDS and Split. The log is already a bit too coarse of sample rate.

    I'm running an OEM Hitachi MAF, and it's the same thing as an OE. Hitachi makes the MAF on these engines. My Hitachi box has it marked as 250-5079 / AFH60-37. That's the newer HUCO p/n system. It was MAF0116 under the old Hitachi system (Hitachi aftermarket is now HUCO).

    I'm more concerned with the lambda sensor than the MAF sensor. The g/s isn't doing anything nuts, but I don't know what it should be doing in that moment from 630sec-655sec. You should also log IDE00559, measured lambda. Fuel trim is changed in response to measured lambda. If it's suddenly seeing rich out of no where, the question is why. If the lambda confirms reporting rich, then is it the sensor or the combustion. I wonder if there's an exhaust leak, the lambda is adjusting to that extra O2 and so reporting fine but actually running rich. Then once in a while that exhaust leak seals and suddenly the true rich is measured and it starts cutting fuel. But if it's causing the engine to stumble, it would seem that cutting is not actually good.

    engine speed
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    "current of O2 B1S1, lambda"
    long term mix
    short term mix
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    kg/hr spec

    What I notice, if I take the g/s and multiply it out to kg/hr, it's a lot more than kg/hr spec when it's also cutting fuel. Notice in that same 636-647, the spec is not changing much, but the g/s takes off, but only after the massive negative trim comes in. Is it doing the g/s boost to help try and balance some of the excess fuel it believes is there, even after cutting the injector duration? The same thing again at 780s range.

    I'm out the next few weeks. But I just don't see a MAF side concern so much. If the MAF was massively overreporting, so the engine was dumping more fuel than actually should be for the air volume, then seeing that with very rich lambda, then cutting the fuel level back for the given g/s input, ok. But it could just be the injectors dumping too much fuel randomly, or the lambda sensor just being wrong, or exhaust leak, etc. Without a means to validate sensors in an isolated test config, it's a lot of random guess.

    There's also logging fuel pressure actual and specified. Is the fuel pressure spiking randomly without a matching driver input event, etc.
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