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Subject:Re: Whats that sound? My fuel pump!!!
From:David Beierl
Date:Fri, 6 Aug 1999 16:18:27 -0400

At 13:45 8/6/99 -0600, Brush, John wrote:
>it sure as heck seems to be the cure. I have no idea why the fuel filter
>being dirty causes such a sound, but it certainly does.

Makes a vacuum in the pump motor chamber -- maybe enough to make a vapor
pocket there?  The pump itself is at the discharge end of the pump
assembly, maybe the last half-inch or so.  The rest is motor.  All
lubrication is by gasoline which flows through the motor on the way to the
pump.

david
David Beierl - dbeierl@ibm.net

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