Several answers could be given here, check all your vaccum lines for breaks or cracks. Check your EGR valve on this year as its electric and has pindle that opens and closes at its necessary time and can get stuck if its carboned up from the engine fouling. You can remove the two 10mm bolts and clean out the unit with carb cleaner and also the intake with carb cleaner and let dry. Check the pindle for movement(pindle it the little button object below the open hole above). If stuck clean and let dry and re-assemble, if gasket is old and brittle, replace or vaccum leak can occurr. Also, poor pressure form the fuel pump, could be dropping pressure during prior to the regulator.
should bo on top of engine in the fuel rail by the injectors
No, the fuel would still be pumped to the engine but it would be at the wrong pressure at the injectors.
It is in the top back of the TBI behind the injectors. If its a vore-tec engine its under the the top intake (pleum)
The fuel pressure regulator is located on the fuel rail for the injectors. It should be right on top of the engine, and it will have a vacuum going to it. It is attached to the rail with two or three screws. Remember to relieve the fuel pressure first if you are planning on changing it.
It depends on the vehicle. On some it is located on the fuel rail, near the injectors. On others it is part of the fuel pump, in the tank.
The regulator is in the engine computer not the alternator.
The fuel pressure regulator maintains a constant predetermined fuel pressure regardless of engine RPMs.
The 2001 Kia fuel pressure regulator can be found on the top of the engine. The fuel pressure regulator will be near the back of the engine.
The regulator is part of the engine computer. The engine computer needs replaced.
Overheating, carbon buildup, defective fuel pressure regulator, defective injectors that are bleeding off.
The fuel pump pressurizes fuel to a greater pressure than is needed at the injectors. There are different types of regulator, some "bleed off" excess pressure by allowing fuel to dump back into the tank via a separate return line, other regulators close a valve once a specific pressure is reached.
It controls the fuel pressure supplied to the engine.