I wuz rippping up one of my favourite hills today in Dee Why, when i started to smell petrol. I was close to my intended destination.. so i kept driving. i parked. i stalled. good timing. went out the back and did the engine lid thing.... BLAAAAAARRGGGGHH!!!
The brass inlet into my cruddy fuel pump had actually pulled from the body of the pump. i can only assume it got a bit too much pressure and 'regulated' itself by ripping itself out of its mooring. looks like the only thing holding it in place (for those of us yet to experience the dismal sight) was a little bit of knurling around the shank. i jammed it back in nice and hard, and sealed it up with epoxy putty; it got me home. flippin criminy bloody bugger brazilian shit.
anyone else had this happen?
:cussing
let sleeping dubs lie
your lucky it didnt catch on fire as most of them do.
The only way to fix this problem is to clamp the fule hose on outlet of fuel pump and clamp it on inlet to carbies.
Get some thin tie wire and go through the clamp and around the fuel pump or carbie to act as a safe guard to stop the fuel line blowing off the pump and or inlet to carbie.
If done this on all of my cars.
good idea, but the whole frikken thing pulled out, not just the hose. the inlet brass piece of 5h1t was still dangling securely from the fuel line. blaaaarrghh!!
i spose i could wind wire all over the fuel lines and round the brass thingum and over the pump and mummify the whole box and dice, but you'd hope the pump would be made well enough to have the fuel/brass connection as the weaker point, not the brass/pump connection. bastards. guess i'm up for a new fuel pump before i turn into a flaming ball of volkswagen.:alien
let sleeping dubs lie
Now your on the right track.
and make sure its a German one, not Brazilian. :thumb
Kruizin Kol
in the defence of the brazilian crud, it has lasted a few years. but what an exit. any idea what the price diff is between german and brazilian? hopefully won't have it much longer, as i'm thinking seriously of a 'facet' pump. 😀
bwahahahahaahaaa
whopping 4 psi
:o
let sleeping dubs lie
I bought a 2nd hand pump and reco kit recently from VVDS but I can't remember what I paid for them, they were with a heap of other stuff. Maybe you could ring them yourself? 🙂
Kruizin Kol
:thumb
let sleeping dubs lie
The price diff between German and Brazilian could be the cost of a whole car..... and the fire brigade's call out fee.
or it could be 100 bucks 😀
might try the mummify with tie wire trick .... VVDS reckons they do it ALL their serviced projects. also on the carbies.. (same prob with dissimilar metals and thermal expansion etc)
let sleeping dubs lie
It's less than that. I'm quite sure I only paid around $100 for the 2nd hand pump and reco kit, but don't hold me to it. Dave?
Kruizin Kol