Date:         Tue, 17 Oct 2006 23:11:37 -0700
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From:         Curt Newsome <tele2222@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Final stage of my long term fuel pump issue - what would you do?
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Thanks to all who responded to my earlier post about
my noisy fuel pump. The story is not over but I'm
getting close.

To make a long story short my fuel pump was noisy and
eventually failed completely because it got plugged up
with a fine rust colored silt from my just "cleaned"
tank.  While the ruined pump is apparently my problem
(shop taking no responsibility for this), they have
offered to re-remove the tank and send it back to
Seatle Radiator to be re-cleaned.

I'm wondering if I should just replace the tank - I
guess I'm just skeptical of anyone's ability to really
clean out the old one and am pretty sick of dealing
with this.  And i really don't want to ruin anohter
fuel pump (this one was new in June!).

The guy at Seattle Radiator seemed pretty baffled that
a tank he had just cleaned could have had gunk in it
and claimed that they had never had a problem before,
but was more than willing to redo the work (more than
I can say for my soon-to-be-former VW mechanic).  Any
opinion on which route to take?  While it would be
cheaper to let them re-clean, the last thing I want is
any more trouble out of this - ever.

What would you do? Any advice on backyard Seattle
mechanics who could install a new tank cheerfully
accepted!

Thanks for your help!

Curt Newsome
'85 Westy


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