Re: Fuel pump?

["Craig Williams" <roccolister@hotmail.com>]

Casey,

That's defiantly your transfer pump. I wouldn't bother changing the main
pump unless you just like having fuel all over you and your garage floor.
Change that transfer pump and see if the problem goes away. I'm sure it
will.

--Craig Williams
1981 Scirocco S 2008cc 16V (Disassembled in Garage)
1987 Jetta GLi 1.8 16V (Daily Driver)
1991 Passat 2.0 16V (For the Wife)

----- Original Message -----
From: Casey Webster <tinfool@home.com>
To: scirocco list <scirocco-L@scirocco.org>; Daun Yeagley <vwdaun@yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 3:05 PM
Subject: Re: Fuel pump?


> > > > evenly hesitate again horribly...to the point were you
> > > have the car
> > > floored
> > > > and nothing happens...then it gets gas, accelerates,
> > > then no more gas
> > >
> > > My car does this exact same thing occasionally.  When I
> > > first got the car
> > > last spring I changed cap, rotor, spark plugs and fuel
> > > filter.  After I did
> > > that, it only happened maybe once all summer, but in the
> > > fall, it came back.
> > > I changed the fuel filter again, but that didn't fix it.
> >
> > Casey - is yours a Wolfsburg Edition too?
> >
> > It sounds like it's a bad pre-pump.  (The one in the tank)
> > It's a lot easier and cheaper to replace than the main pump
> > too...
>
> Daun, yes mine is a Wolfsburg Edition.....
>
> this is weird, but today, after writing this email first, I went out for a
> bit.....car was doing the hesitating thing....it normally will do this
once
> or twice on a trip in town.  Today it would do it EVERY TIME I hammered on
> the gas...it's almost like a bang-bang-bang, hesitates so horribly I am
> afraid It'll break something.  (Sal, if I don't fix this soon, I may need
> that header you are selling *L*) also if I turned fast or braked hard, the
> engine would die.
>
> I checked the hoses fromt he transfer pump as shannon suggested, but they
> are fine.
>
> I have a new main pump that I bought for my winter beater that I have
since
> stripped for parts and had the rest hauled away....but I forgot to take
out
> the transfer pump DOHHH.......hopefully it is the main pump (it was making
> funny loud noises today)........I'm going to change it after I get home
from
> class tonight at 10:00.......I HOPE this fixes it......
>
> Casey
> 84 Wolfsburg Roc
>
>
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