Re: Relay getting hot...

[William J Erikson <williamjosiah@juno.com>]

I think I solved my problem by grounding the pump better.
	-Josiah



On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 00:31:37 EDT SailingFC@aol.com writes:
>In a message dated 6/21/99 7:18:56 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
>williamjosiah@juno.com writes:
>
>> 	The relay getting hot means that the fuel pump is drawing 
>too much
>>  power, right? The fuel pump is not getting hot or doing anything 
>odd.
>>  It's staying quite cool. Voltage at the pump is... well, as good as 
>it's
>>  going to get in my car, around 12 volts.
>
>My relay also runs HOT.  It runs so hot that the case is partially 
>melted, 
>but it still works.  I've opened it up and cleaned the contacts in an 
>attempt 
>to minimize the contact resistance, but no change.  I thought that I 
>needed a 
>new pump because it was drawing so much current, so I bought a new 
>pump, but 
>no change.  I've concluded that it just runs hot.  Been that way for 
>21 
>years.  BTW, I had the factory recall done(in the early 80's) which 
>relocates 
>the power feed to the relay.
>
>-Dick-
>78 Scirocco
>Original Owner
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