Your description sounds like there is a power issue to the pump, not uncommon on GMs. Attached are the pump control wiring. You can do the testing with a simple test light and a jumper wire. First take a jumper wire and find the red fuel pump prime wire, it's usually taped in the harness near the fuse box or the pump relay. If you jump battery power to it you bypass the relay and power the pump directly. If you do that and the pump turns on the wiring from the relay to the pump is good. If the pump doesn't come on it is either the wiring or the connector at the pump. If the pump turns on the next step will be to test the pump relay to see if it is turning on as it should. For that take the test light and connect it to a good ground, now probe the orange wire at E and see if it has battery power. If it does the fuse and wiring to the relay are okay. Next probe at terminal C with the Green w white stripe wire. Have someone turn on the key, watch the light, it should turn on for about 3 seconds to prime the pump. If that checks okay, connect the test light to battery power and check terminal B with the Black w white wire. That is a ground for the relay. By this point you should have found the issue if it's relay related. Now you need to test the oil pump switch circuit as it is what powers the pump once the engine starts. For that find the oil pressure switch, It will have an orange wire and a brown w white wire on it. The easy test is to just jumper across the switch, if the pump turns on, the wiring is good. The way the system works is that when you turn on the key, the relay turns on and primes the fuel system. The engine starts and the oil pressure turns the switch on and powers the pump, no oil pressure and the engine will start and shut down from no fuel. Testing the switch is a bit of a pain but you just connect the test light to the brown and white wire and crank the engine over. Once the idiot light or pressure gauge moves the test light should turn on. If it doesn't the switch is bad.
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Saturday, December 10th, 2022 AT 2:17 AM