Hi John,

I have had good luck resurrecting a stuck pump by soaking it with
acetone and/or carb cleaner. I combine this with exercising the pump a
bit with 12V applied in both normal and reversed polarity... Rocking it
back and forth this way will help break up the clotting and allows the
solvent to work a little further into the pump and do its work on the
pumps innards.

It doesn't always work, but with new pumps being in excess of $100
delivered I find it's certainly worth trying.

Happy Trails,

Greg Potts
Toronto, Ontario Canada
197x Westfakia "Bob the Tomato"
1987 Wolfsburg Weekender Hardtop
www.pottsfamily.ca

BUSES OF THE CORN - AUGUST 13-15th, 2010
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  On 7/16/2010 12:48 PM, John Rodgers wrote:
> I'm trying to resurrect my long dormant Carat which sat for 10 years
> or there abouts.

SNIP

> Question: Can the pump be repaired and resurrected, or is dead, dead in
> this case?