Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 10:54:54 -0900
Reply-To: Mark Tuovinen <mst@AK.NET>
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From: Mark Tuovinen <mst@AK.NET>
Subject: Re: Breakdown in Cloudcroft(NVC)
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Maggie,
Fuel pumps will do that to you. My 1990 Jeep Cherokee would not start four years ago, we traced the problem to the fuel pump and set out to replace it. Of course this was the day before we were to set out on a weekend trip and the tank was full of fuel and the Jeep full of camping gear, two tandem sea kayaks and their gear. We jacked up the Jeep, put jack stands under it and started to drain the tank. For some reason I turned the key on after we had removed about seven gallons of fuel, the pump started up. It was late, dark, raining, and we were in no mood to be changing the pump anyway, so we lowered the Jeep back to the ground and took it for a test drive. It ran fine, and has been almost perfect ever since. In the last four years it has been to the Arctic Circle and back, numerous road trips to McCarthy, Seward, etc. About once a year it will not start unless I take a long stick and hit the tank next to the fuel pump(which is in the tank), mean while the new pump
is on the floor next to the drivers seat. Someday it may leave me stranded but I am able to repair it when that happens and hope to sell it before then, I will of course inform the future owner of this condition.
Mark in AK
----- Original Message -----
From: Maggie Dew <wildebus@GMAIL.COM>
Date: Monday, October 31, 2005 3:28 pm
Subject: Re: Breakdown in Cloudcroft
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> I spent Sunday getting a ride down to Alamogordo, finding a fuel
> pump, and
> then getting back up to Cloudcroft. The van would start, but would die
> almost immediately - not getting gas. Tried several times with no
> luck. I
> was preparing to change out the pump and was examining the old
> pump, messing
> with the wiring connections, and getting ready to take it off,
> when the
> local state cop brought a friend of his over to see if they could
> help. Of
> course the van started right up and hasn't quit since. Go figure -
> looseconnection? Dirt in the pump? I drove it on to Carlsbad -
> approx 130 miles -
> without incident. I have the new pump and a new filter to take
> with me. If I
> make it back to Oklahoma OK, I will order a new Bosch pump and
> take this
> cheap one back - then install both the pump and the filter.
> Thanks to Dave Milo, and to the guys on the Subaru-Vanagon list,
> Martin and
> John.
> Maggie
> '85 Subaru-Westy "Anne Bonney"
>
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