Re: help! my fuel pump's making strange noises.....

[David Liu <dyliu@pacbell.net>]

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yup - filled it all the way and it still makes the whining noise.
so what now?

At 07:55 PM 10/23/99 -0700, Tim Rayner wrote:
>try filling the fuel tank all the way to the top and see if the whining goes
>away if it does then the prepump of tranfer fuel pump is bad.TER
>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Liu <dyliu@pacbell.net>
>To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Date: Saturday, October 23, 1999 7:33 PM
>Subject: help! my fuel pump's making strange noises.....
>
>
> >
> >
> >well, i noticed that just two days ago my 16v was making some small whining
> >sounds from the trunk-area. i figure that it's the fuel pump being a
> >not-so-happy-camper.
> >
> >yesterday, i noticed that when i came close to a stop, the rear made a
> >sound much like a little motor whizzing away. then, upon acceleration, it
> >would go away (or so it seems - the tt exhaust is too loud and drowns out
> >most of the noise)
> >
> >any ideas? is it time to get a new fuel pump? is it the fuel pump or
> >something else?
> >can i get one from someone?
> >is it an hour's worth of work?
> >
> >thanks
> >dave
> >
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