Re: Fuel pumps dying one after the other

["Chris DeLong" <green536@hotmail.com>]

Most likely you have shit in your tank. I would also suspect the fuel pump 
relay. The pressure accumulator will not affect the life f your fuel pump. 
It will only cause hard starting problems when hot. Run a jumper to bypass 
the relay and if it doesnt help I would recommend you to replace the tank 
and the pump and the filter all at once.


>
>Hey all,
>	My '84 Rabbit eats fuel pumps, I would loved some opinions on why.
>I've had five fuel pumps in it now in four years. I have 13.5v to the
>pump, steady, but sometimes my internal wiring gets screwy and it'll drop
>down to like 9v and then shoot up to 13v. Then I go under the hood and
>clean off the terminals and it works fine again - 13.5v steady. It's the
>internal power wire that gets corroded. Could this ruin my fuel pumps?
>	I could possibly have crap in my tank, and in light of this, I'm
>going to put an inline filter between the tank and the pump.
>	The third possibility is that not having the fuel pressure
>accumulator is ruining my pumps. Would it? I don't have one. I have never
>noticed any other disadvantages. Somebody once told me that this could be
>a problem, but I haven't heard anybody say they actually know that there's
>anything wrong with doing this. I'm loath to get a new fuel pressure
>accumulator, because it would mean that I would have to get the two lines
>that go to it and from it as well, but I would if that's the thing to do.
>	What prompted this is that the other day, my Rabbit started
>skipping - it always always runs well up to 7200rpm or so, and it started
>skipping above about 5000rpm at full throttle. Sometimes it does it now,
>sometimes it doesn't, but it's directly related the the sounds that the
>fuel pump is making. When the engine is skipping, so is the fuel pump.
>It's going like, bzzzz-bzt!bzzzzzzzt!-bzzz-bzt!bzt! when it's skipping.
>	Opinions? Ideas?
>	-Josiah
>
>
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Chris DeLong
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