I just changed the filter.
I captured the fuel in a clear jar and took a good look at it,
everything looked clean. I even opened the filter and took a look,
I'd never done that before with a car fuel filter. A bit black on the
bottom but nothing that looked like crud and rust as such that I'd
expect to come from a 'dirty' tank.
The pump is rubber mounted  and the tank 'out' line sits all by
itself in the corner.
What did I miss?
I guess the next step is to check the hundred dollar bill tree and
see if I can afford a new pump.

Rob
becida@comcast.net
with a real noisy fuel pump in an 84 westy

At  5/14/2008 05:28 PM, neil N wrote:
>This schmecks of the cavitation issue I have read about.
>
>FP gets more air than fuel and makes noise about it.
>
>If I'm not misunderstanding the term cavitation properly.
>
>
>Cheers,
>
>Neil.
>
>On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Rob <becida@comcast.net> wrote:
> > At  5/14/2008 08:40 AM, Ken Smale wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello All,
> >>
> >> Brand new to the list.  I hope I'm not contravening any protocols by
> >> answering
> >> this way.
> >
> > Welcome! Protocols? We have those? <g>.
> >
> > I was down at the NW Foreign auto parts (Lacey WA) to get a new
> > square filter this afternoon (the guy speaks VW...) and I mentioned
> > my noisy pump. He recalled something about the 84 return line (on the
> > tank) being too close to the pump intake line, this causing bubbles
> > or some such and more noise from the pump... it was one of those
> > thought/remembrances that come from somewhere in the back of the mind...
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Rob
> >
> > becida@comcast.net
> > Western Washington State, USA
> >
>
>
>
>--
>Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia - "Jaco"
>
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