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Subject:Re: loud fuel pump
From:Karl Wolz
Date:Mon, 23 Aug 1999 22:25:48 -0700

Gee thanks,  I was working on bad info.  Sorry.  A thousand pardons

Karl Wolz

----- Original Message -----
From: Ari Ollikainen <Ari@OLTECO.com>
To: Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>; <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 10:11 PM
Subject: Re: loud fuel pump

> At 8:41 PM -0700 8/23/99, Karl Wolz wrote:
> >Being picky here, but  .  .
> >
> >Cavitating is what happens when a bearing wears out and a spindle is no
> >longer rotating around a single axis.
> >
> >In other words the pump's spindle is kind of rumbling  around a wallered
out
> >hole instead of simply spinning.  Really has nothing to do with pumping
air;
> >it's just not pumping much of anything.
>
> I ... don't ...think ... so...
>
> In simplest terms, cavitation is the process in which a liquid changes
> to a vapor due to a reduction in pressure. This can occur in a pump
> downstream of a below-design restriction in flow.
>
> >My apologies for the poor description.
>
> Try again, perhaps we'll all understand what you're trying to say
> if you say it again differently.
>
>
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