Re: Fuel delivery diagnosis

["Brian Wagner" <scirocco_88_16v@hotmail.com>]

The moral is don't trust your fuel guage, if you were a buckin and a snort 
and it went away when you fueled up you were running out of gas.

IMHO - never let it get below 1/4 tank

Brian


>From: "Rick Alexander" <rick@brubakerbox.com>
>To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Subject: Fuel delivery diagnosis
>Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 16:15:47 -0500
>
>Today my '87 1.8L 16V started stumbling and bucking. Along with this was an
>erratic sound from the pump. So thinking, "I've heard that before", I
>stopped by the import flaps and picked up a new Bosch pump (ouch!). I'd 
>been
>driving with the fuel gauge in the red for a while so I stopped and topped
>up with the best there was (92 octane). Lo and behold the stumbling 
>stopped,
>the bucking disappeared and the noise from the pump became more regular.
>I've been feeding 91 octane plus so that is a constant here. The point of
>all this is to ask if I'd be wrong with the assumption that my problem is
>with the transfer pump and not the pressure pump. I know that a weak
>transfer pump will hasten the demise of the pressure pump but if I can put
>my spare transfer pump in and do the pressure pump at a later date that
>would be great.
>
>Rick Alexander
>http://www.brubakerbox.com
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>
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