Re: Fuel filters

["Wm. Josiah Erikson" <josiah@gsinet.net>]

Yep that's what happened, the fuel filter was so clogged up that it slowed the
fuel flow down and burned out the pump. I don't think it was necessarily the
fuel filter's fault, though- it was probably the used fuel tank that I put in.
When I dumped the fuel filter out backwards, the fuel was BLACK. Bad.
    -Josiah
    '84 GTI (autoxer and toy)
    '86 Scirocco 8v (buy me)
    '87 QSW (daily driver)
    http://www.gsinet.net/~josiah

Kevin wrote:

> It must be a conincidence. the fuel filter is downstream of the pump so the
> unfiltered fuel goes through the pump regardless. The only difference would
> be if one was so clogged up it broke the fuel pump. VERY unlikely. The car
> wouldn't run if the filter was this clogged, you wouldn't have a chance to
> burn out the pump.
> I use bosch pumps now anyways, cheap insurance! :)
>
> >I bought a non-Bosch one once and my fuel pump died a month later.
> Coincidence? Maybe. I replaced it with a Bosch and have
> >had no problems since.
> >    -Josiah
> >    '84 GTI (Autoxer/Toy)
> >    '86 Scirocco 8v (for sale)
> >    '87 QSW (daily driver)
> >    http://www.gsinet.net/~josiah
> >
> --
> Kevin Fry .:. 81 Scirocco S JH -- turbo soon to come!
>       San Diego, CA
> "If God had meant for us to use the metric system, we would've been born
> with ten fingers and ten toes."


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