Fuel pump?....update

["Casey Webster" <tinfool@home.com>]

Well thanks to all who helped diagnose my failing transfer pump.  I replaced
it today ($122 cdn for the pump and new filter) ALL FIXED!!!  took me a
whole 10 minutes!!!!!!

I can stomp on it and brake and turn hard all I want now  :o)

and as for the main pump.......yes, I wasted a good 1.5 hours last night
changing that......it was a PITA....there's not much room to get it out.  So
now I have a new transfer pump and a new main pump in my roc.

Casey
84 Roc (now idling more smoothly and running great)


> 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.



> > > > > 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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