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Subject:Re: Cost of fuel pump
From:Tom Young
Date:Tue, 24 Jun 1997 12:40:43 -0700 (PDT)

On Tue, 24 Jun 1997 hgmueller@hydro.mb.ca wrote:

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> Just would like to share this you folks....
> 
> My fuel pump got quite noisy last week and since I'm heading into the 
> backwoods for a couple of weeks of trout fishing I checked into prices for 
> a spare.

Harry:

I guess a noisy pump could be the sign of the pump's impending doom, but 
it can also be the sign of a partially clogged fuel tank or filter.  A 
couple of weeks or so ago I pulled the line going from the tank to the 
pump and ran a wire up it, into the tank.  Re-installed and......that 
annoying buzz I'd been listening to for a couple of years was gone!  (In 
a week or so it came back, so it looks like I get to drop the tank this 
summer.)

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Tom Young               young@sherlock.SIMS.Berkeley.EDU
Lafayette, CA  94549    '81 Vanagon
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