fuel pump

[blake at clockworm.com (Blake Irvin)]

well, the car would turn over but not start.  pulled off a  
distributor line (fuel) and found that none came out when the car  
turned over.

took up the back seat, and found the transfer pump was kicking on  
(bridged the fuel pump relay).

pulled the terminal wires off the pump, bridged the relay, and  
measured the voltage - got 11.89v

measured AT the terminals on the pump, and got 9v

so i figured the pump had a dead coil that was sucking up voltage.   
turned out to be right.


the new pump did NOT come with the copper washers - i may not have  
torqued the cap on the output fuel line enough - 15ft/lbs is the  
spec, i think.


thanks to Jim Ruffi and Cathy Boyko for lots of good advice (and to  
you for recommending the good pump).

blake/

On Dec 2, 2005, at 9:43 , Phil Boeye wrote:

> Glad to hear it, Blake.  Did it not come with new
> copper washers?  Please tell me it did for that price.
>
> Could you one more time describe exactly what it was
> doing that caused you to suspect it was the pump?  So
> many pump threads here and on the Vortex, I forget.  I
> would like to log it into my memory for
> troubleshooting.
>
> -Phil
>
> '87 stock 8v beater
> '84.5 2L 8v + 2H
>
> "..slave to the disease..."
>
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