Hi, I just registered. I have a '90 base pickup with the EFI 22RE. I got in a front end collision and disconnected some things so that a friend and I could cut off and weld on a replacement front shell. Which seemed to work fine. Now I tried to reconnect everything and I'm not getting fuel into the engine. Starter fluid gets a pop so there's spark. Disconnection of electrical stuffs and cut and reweld of the replacement shell happened over the course of a couple years, so it's been sitting awhile. Still, it ran like a top before I disconnected everything, nothing mechanical was affected by the accident. And before I disconnected everything, it started up fine. So now after all this sitting... no fuel?

Disconnected (and replaced ) fuel filter. Turned on key, NO fuel coming from pump! Not sure why fuel pump isn't working. Help me start this thing!

 

First of all after sitting that long the first thing you should do is drain that old fuel. Sometimes it can gum up into a gell like form and pass thru the lines and then harden again when there is no fuel.
in my case I drained fuel all the way and added new fuel and it ran good for a day then the next day lines were clogged again and no start. So I drained it again(thru the drain plug on the bottom)and dropped the tank and found all that caramel like old fuel stuck to everything.Old fuel has a very distinct smell kind of sweet but stinky smell. Next you need to check if your fuel pump is still working. Sometimes it just needs to wake up. If you are going to drop the tank you can cut the wires on top or tap into the harness and test the pump on a battery. Heads up if it works fuel will spray out. If not try tapping on it with something to wake it up. If still nothing you need a new one.

 

Also double check your fuses

 

I just had the same problem with a truck sitting for a few years. It turns out that moisture built up in the tank, even though the pump was submerged in old gas, and rusted the hell out of the fuel pump.

Like he said^ test the pump with straight 12v to rule out the rest of the wiring.

 

What they said, but check the fuses first. It's probably not the problem, but it sucks to get everything torn down and realize all you had to do was pull out a fuse.