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Re: Fuel pumps dying one after the other
I have a generic 50A relay on it - the stock fuel pump relay is long gone
: )
-Josiah
On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Dan Bubb wrote:
> Hate to keep bringing this up, but what about the fuel pump relay. Gets hot,
> stops working or becomes intermittent.
> Before you buy another pump rig up a jumper wire to replace the relay and
> substitute it when the pump seems to be acting up.
> My 79 went thru these relays on a regular basis. They got hot enough to melt
> the solder connection and then burn the traces on the little PC board.
> The new relays are much better, but my 84 just started acting up (occasional
> missing, dying and not wanting to start, almost always when the engine had
> been running for awhile and the relay was damn hot) and replacing the relay
> cured the problem.
> Dan
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