Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 06:41:03 EDT
Reply-To: RAlanen@AOL.COM
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From: Frank Condelli <RAlanen@AOL.COM>
Subject: Re: Final stage of my long term fuel pump issue - what would you
do?
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In a message dated 18/10/2006 12:43:41 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM writes:
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!
Curt, your just wasting time and money trying to clean the tank. It is
impossible. This subject has been covered a gazillion times by myself and
others. Check the archives. Then, install a new tank and stop burning up fuel
pumps !
Cheers,
Frank Condelli
Almonte, Ontario, Canada
'87 Westy, '90 Carat, '87 Wolfsburg (Forsale) & Lionel Trains
Vanagon/Vanagon Westfalia Service in the Ottawa Valley
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