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• Re: Locked fuel Pump - how to free up?
  Historical mailing list - Greg Potts
  Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:28:29 -0400
  ...fuel system. Fill inlet end of the pump with solvent, then flip it over and fill the other end. Repeat. Then pulse the pump...
• Re: '88 Westy Bucking / Stalling
  Historical mailing list - Steven Johnson
  Tue, 25 Aug 2020 12:32:01 -0700
  ...The Bosch pump should have a relatively fine mesh > screen inside the pump at inlet. > > Possible points where debris might enter fuel tank: > > - failed...
• Re: cheap gauges from JC Whitney
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Sun, 20 Jun 2004 17:56:20 -0700
  The proper place for the pressure gauge is between the fuel pump and the pressure regulator. The only thing 'after' the pressure regulator is...
• Thanks again! Fuel pump repair (longish)
  Historical mailing list - James Fritz
  Wed, 2 Aug 2000 15:12:37 -0500
  Volks, Thanks to Unca Joel, Das Kapitan, Dennis Lockwood, Angus Gordon, and Cliff Gotschalk I successfully replaced my fuel pump and fuel filter this...
• Re: Diesel questions
  Historical mailing list - Poppie Jagersand
  Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:24:55 -0700
  ...I use a vacuum pump to fill the system with fuel and avoid the 1min cranking needed otherwise (exessive cranking taxes injection pump and...
• Re: Strange no-start problem
  Historical mailing list - Courtney Hook
  Fri, 22 Dec 2006 15:23:17 -0800
  Put a fuel pressure tester on the pump outlet end, and see if you have any pressure. Just because it whirs, doesn't mean...
• Re: parts commonality - Fuel pump
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Fri, 4 Jun 2004 17:27:26 -0700
  ...Jim On Friday, Jun 4, 2004, at 08:55 US/Pacific, Old Volks Home wrote: > This fuel pump fits Beetles w/FI 75-79...
• Re: Installing a fuel pump
  Historical mailing list - BJ Feddish
  Mon, 6 Aug 2007 17:10:46 -0400
  The new fuel pump and filter is in. I'm still picking dirt out from my eyes. Nobody warned me about that fuel filter...
• Re: Fuel Pump Noise
  Historical mailing list - Rick Cooper
  Fri, 12 Feb 2016 16:02:24 -0800
  ...Started a month or so ago (fuel pump buzzing) so I put in a front, pre-fuel-pump filter. That solved the problem for...
• Re: Noisy fuel pump causes
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Tue, 13 May 2008 19:51:56 -0700
  ...noise when the fuel pressure regulator failed. If your van is idling okay its probably not that but......... The pump should have rubber mounts...
• fuel filter mystery 85 'gon
  Historical mailing list - Judith Barr/Leo Girard
  Mon, 13 Jul 1998 14:38:27 -0400
  ...Then engine starts immediately; Will continue to run when fuel pump is re-connected. Fuel Pressure Regulator is new. Ideas? Thanks, Leo [text/html]
• Re: What next? ... GREMLINS STILL OCCUPY 80 CA VANAGON
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 31 Jan 1997 19:27:22 +0000
  > If the vehicle is fuel injected and the vapor line plugged, the chances are > very good that the suction from the fuel pump will...
• Re: 85 Westy fuel tank change
  Historical mailing list - John Meeks
  Fri, 6 Nov 2009 18:57:19 -0500
  ...The fuel pump (passenger) side leaves the tank via another 7mm outlet pipe to the stock cube shaped pre-pump filter with 7mm inlet...
• Re: 83.5 Runs for about 4 seconds
  Historical mailing list - Jonce Fancher
  Mon, 1 May 2006 19:23:43 -0400
  Hi Jeff 1st Prime the fuel pump. make sure the fuel tank is at least 1/2 full. when you disconnect the fuel line...
• Fuel Pump Kill Switch
  Historical mailing list - Richard Golen
  Fri, 30 Dec 2016 19:26:05 +0000
  Hi, Back in the 80s I rigged up a power cut off switch for the fuel pump relay for my 911. Has anyone done...
• Fuel pump Cost - '93 EV
  Historical mailing list - Rick Williams
  Tue, 5 May 1998 21:15:13 -0700
  A friend with a '93 Eurovan (2.5L 5-cyl) just had his fuel pump fail. The cost was $500+ Canadian or about $350...
• fuel pump
  Historical mailing list - Sparky Bartee
  Mon, 7 Jul 2003 09:35:09 -0400
  yeah the DUB is still giving me hassle.....i wanted to know what symptoms the car would experience if the fuel pump was giong...
• Replacement Fuel Pump
  Historical mailing list - Larry and Avery
  Fri, 1 Oct 2004 08:54:11 -0400
  FYI The "Bosch 286 fuel pump Grand National T-type" works as a VW replacement. Has exactly the same hose fittings and electrical connectors...
• Fuel pressure regulator
  Historical mailing list - Rico Dagastino
  Fri, 25 Feb 2000 17:22:18 EST
  I disconnected from the fuel filter (the large metal filter between the pump and the injectors) the hose which connects the filter to the...
• Re: More on sears auto dept
  Historical mailing list - Robert Lilley
  Thu, 7 Jun 2001 22:04:19 EDT
  ...It damaged my fuel pump, fuel tank, injectors, +? other damage. So far @$1800 to fix. It was going to be $800+ for the fuel...
• Re: Fuel Pump Death Wheeze?
  Historical mailing list - Wagner, James W., , SAF/AQPS
  Wed, 8 Dec 1999 13:13:21 -0500
  ...I assume this is my fuel > pump. Sure sounds like it is in that area. Is this what > happens when fuel pumps start to...
• Re: Breakdown in Cloudcroft
  Historical mailing list - Maggie Dew
  Wed, 2 Nov 2005 13:55:51 -0600
  ...I'm planning to get a good fuel pump and carry it with me, but as long as she's running I'm not...
• Re: Is ECU involved in getting power to fuel pump when turning ignition switch on?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:51:30 -0400
  ...Basically if the engine stops the fuel pump will not pump. > > >When the engine is being cranked the fuel pump will pump because the...
• Re: Fuel Pump Relay/Fuse
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Sat, 27 Jan 2018 14:47:17 -0800
  ...There should be an image in Bentley Digifant section showing which of the 2 relays is the fuel pump relay. That section should also...
• Re: Calculate fuel consumption when idling?
  Historical mailing list - Mike
  Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:28:40 -0500
  The other problem is, that if you let the fuel pump run dry for more than a few seconds, it'll cost you a...
• Re: making a little headway but need advice
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Sat, 7 Dec 2013 11:19:13 -0800
  Yes, simply rotating the dizzy a 1/4 turn should make the fuel pump cycle on for a second. No need to jumper the...
• Re: Fuel Pump - How to disable
  Historical mailing list - George Goff
  Mon, 26 Jan 2004 19:09:41 EST
  ...One of them is the fuel pump relay. It has been so long that I cannot recall which is left and which is right...
• new fuel pump wiring
  Historical mailing list - Mark
  Sat, 17 Jul 2010 12:10:17 -0400
  Hello all - I'm wiring up a new bosch fuel pump - but I'm having a hard time distinguishing which wire goes where. any...
• Re: low fuel pressure and lean engine
  Historical mailing list - Marc Perdue
  Mon, 5 Jul 2004 16:43:52 -0400
  ...I suspect the VW engineers probably didn't use fuel pumps that would freak at the first sign of dirt coming down the line...
• Re: Placement of Fuel Filter
  Historical mailing list - Terry Kay
  Mon, 16 Jul 2001 11:16:58 -0500
  ...So if the filter was before the pump, and got full of garbage, it would have a hell of a time pulling the fuel...
• Re: More Fuel Pump Weirdness - Has Mercury gone retrograde again?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:28:16 -0400
  At 03:27 PM 4/21/2010, Pat Sloan wrote: >There is a universal fuel pump available, which does both the pulling (from >the...
• update - Rocky's results - was Westy Karma, was stuck in Custer
  Historical mailing list - Joy Hecht
  Mon, 4 Oct 2004 22:50:52 -0600
  ...Things he tried (not entirely in this order): - check fuel filter, little screen inside fuel pump, hoses from gas tank to fuel pump to...
• Re: fuel pump +Mom problem
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Wed, 9 Nov 2005 13:53:34 -0600
  ...fuel pump +Mom problem >> >>1) I'm expecting the new Bosch fuel pump to arrive any day. Is this as >>easy as it looks...
• Re: looking for technical assistance in Wisconsin or Michigan/UP
  Historical mailing list - Greg Potts
  Wed, 8 Sep 2004 21:25:39 -0400
  ...It was packed >>>> full of rust and crud. >> >> For this reason I put a fuel filter BEFORE and AFTER the fuel pump. M > >
• Re: Fuel Filter "Update" Results
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:44:50 -0700
  ...We use the stock vanagon fuel pumps on all subaru engine conversions for example. 'most pumps' for EFI we are used to operate around...
• Re: Speaking of fuel lines.....
  Historical mailing list - Jaime Forero
  Tue, 2 Aug 2005 18:36:50 -0500
  ...fuel filter. [?]An additional short length of 7mm fuel line connects fuel pump and Fuel filter? And what is ahead of the fuel pump...
• Re: Final stage of my long term fuel pump issue - what would you do?
  Historical mailing list - Greg Potts
  Wed, 18 Oct 2006 14:53:28 -0400
  ...A filter before this pump would have saved it. Damaging fuel contaminants can indeed be smaller than the outlet screen on the tank. Happy...
• Re: Fuel Pump Problem '85 GL
  Historical mailing list - Mladen, Zoran
  Thu, 18 Jan 2001 14:12:22 -0700
  ...Fuel Pump Problem '85 GL Wait a minute! It is probably NOT the fuel pump! But instead the fuel pump relay (located in a...
• strange sound in fuel pump area
  Historical mailing list - s w
  Thu, 29 Nov 2001 10:53:43 -0800
  i've got this wierd sound that comes from the area of the fuel pump/filter area of my van.it goes "eeeeee,(one...
• Re: New fuel pump and filter - still noisy!
  Historical mailing list - Mark Dearing
  Fri, 9 Apr 2010 08:38:29 EDT
  ...somebody had used a beer coolie to insulate the fuel pump. Budwieser wrote right on it LOL It was wire tied in place . seemed...
• The mysterious Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:15:22 -0800
  The fuel pump stays on full time. That is mysterious. The other mystery, the switch, stopped smoking. � What gives? The fuel pump is supposed...
• Re: Fuel Filters vs Fuel Strainers
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Wed, 6 Oct 2010 17:30:52 -0700
  ...And the fuel >> pump on my Carat was seized so that had to be dealt with. By removing >> the pump, and spraying carburetor cleaner...
• What's this pump?
  Historical mailing list - Flowers, Robert O Mr (CPF N69RF)
  Tue, 23 Jul 2002 12:24:50 -1000
  Listee's While browsing Ebay parts I noticed the following fuel pump for sale. http://mediaservice.photoisland.com/auction/Jul/20027182879487910526875.jpg This may...
• Re: fuel pump choice?
  Historical mailing list - David Bohannan
  Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:18:19 -0400
  ...Dave On 9/11/06, Dan Barrett <dbx@pobox.com> wrote: > > Volks, > The sickly noise from my fuel pump has me shopping for replacements...
• Re: Whining sound, 86 GL
  Historical mailing list - James Wagner
  Mon, 10 Aug 1998 11:05:52 -0400
  Yes, I've had a continuous problem with my fuel pump which I 've replaced once. It seems that running the gas tank to...
• Re: How loud is your fuel pump?
  Historical mailing list - Wognacious
  Sun, 14 Mar 2004 14:08:51 -0800
  ...I'm wondering if there was crud in my fuel tank that KO'd the new pump just as it did the old one...
• Eurospec problems
  Historical mailing list - Grant Holst
  Thu, 14 Oct 1999 08:36:39 -0700
  ...I now think the problem is in the curcuit that turns on the fuel pump relay. I couldn't hear the pump priming after...
• Re: Clean Fuel Pump
  Historical mailing list - Ken Lewis
  Sat, 1 Apr 2006 09:06:13 -0500
  ...Years ago I disassembled a fuel pump to see how it worked. I was amazed at the shower of sparks the brushes produced. I...
• diesel gas conversion - fifth day
  Historical mailing list - Matt Ratto
  Sun, 5 May 2002 18:50:39 -0700
  ...However, on the Golf the fuel return line went into the fuel pump/filter/etc assembly whereas on the diesel it went back directly...
• Re: Sorting out mechanical issues 85
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Mon, 5 Sep 2022 13:35:37 -0400
  ...Those fuel pumps are very powerful. The bubbles (and noise) are due to vacuum. This is called "cavitation". Happens in vehicle fuel pumps, it...
• Re: wtb - 2wd fuel pump mounting bracket
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Mon, 11 Jul 2005 11:58:52 -0700
  ...wtb - 2wd fuel pump mounting bracket > In a message dated 7/11/05 10:18:58 AM Eastern Daylight Time, > joelvanderkwaak@gmail.com writes...
• Re: Emisson Control unit question
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 11 Jun 2003 23:21:41 -0400
  ...The AFM has a fuel pump micro switch in it at the zero vacuum position. If this switch isn't closed the ECU will...
• Re: 1.9 fuel pump won't work
  Historical mailing list - Dan N
  Thu, 28 Mar 2019 17:42:10 -0700
  have you look at the fuel pump relay? On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 5:28 PM thewestyman <zolo@foxinternet.net> wrote: > Hi to...
• Was: Residual Fuel Pressure... Now: Dirt PIC
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Tue, 4 Mar 2014 18:47:42 -0800
  ...fuel pump check valve is at fault but don't > see how it relates to engine temp. (or fuel pump temp?) -- Neil n Blog...
• Re: Bosch metal fuel filter - made for same or different fuel line diameters?
  Historical mailing list - Karl M.
  Sun, 17 Sep 2000 22:04:53 -0400
  ...The filter's 'intake' line from the tank, however, appears > to be 5/16" while the 'exit' line to the fuel pump is larger...
• Re: Vanagon Gas Tank/Fuel System measurements
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Tue, 11 May 2010 16:43:25 -0700
  ...Right? Then the > >> outlet to the fuel pump is smaller..... 7mm? > >> > >> I know the current system I have is very gerry-rigged with it...
• Re: Fuel leak ruin trip to San Jose (FIRE HAZARD)
  Historical mailing list - SBate82659
  Mon, 6 Apr 1998 21:47:42 EDT
  <The fuel system has a fuel pump, I think, so the lines are under slight pressure when the car is running. A. ALWAYS keep...
• Fuel Pump-Replace?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Chen
  Thu, 18 Sep 1997 15:43:27 -0400
  ...Should I go ahead and replace the fuel pump at the same time? The fuel pump is working and isn't making any unusual...
• Re: Sorting out mechanical issues 85
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Mon, 5 Sep 2022 13:16:17 -0400
  ...Fuel pump tries to do the best it can, but the result is >>>> cavitation in fuel pump (noisy and the gurgling....and vapor bubbles...
• Re: fuel tank outlet vs fuel filter inlet
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Mon, 17 May 2010 10:09:40 -0400
  ...If you have a loud fuel pump, you probably have an obscruction somewhere (dirt, a pinched line, etc.) - or a pump that has been...