what a day! putt, putt, putt....

[David Liu <dyliu@pacbell.net>]

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well,
i have been taking my time to replace the transfer pump (like those of you 
recommended - thanks!) and it finally caught up to me in a way...

my fuel gauge essentially told me that i was driving off gas fumes but of 
course i ignored it. so i'm driving along and just as i'm about 5 blocks 
away from the destination, my car begins to putt-putt along (no gas!). i 
limp over and park the car (luckily i  had arrived). an hour or so later, i 
got into the car and the damn thing just cranked and cranked, starting 
after 20 seconds or so.. it ran real rough (like shit, really) and the 
tailpipe was shooting off this blackish smoke - rich as can be.. at this 
point i figured i need gas (no shit!) and luckily found a place close by.

filled the tank halfway and started the car. again, real rough. at idle 
speeds the engine would cut-off and run rough, at higher 3k+ it would rev 
semi-fine. so i take the car on the freeway and run it through its paces to 
get whatever crap was potentially clogging the injectors as a result of my 
fuel negligence, and arrive at another gas station, whereby i put in some 
injector cleaner-additive. i got home without anymore of the aforementioned 
problems and all is semi-well (for now...)

so here's the question - as far as the transfer pump goes, will a 
grand-auto brand work fine or should i go with a true oem pump?
secondly, the bentley seems to mention that there may be a dealer 
recall/fix on the transfer pump. is this right?

thanks
dave

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