Change the filter is my 1st step for a noisy pump. When I bought my '84 it had a noisy pump, very noisy. The PO had changed the pump and wrapped stuff around it to quiet it down. Usually a new fuel filter will stop the noise, not this time. The van also ran out of gas at 3/4 of a tank. I put a new tank in for the 3/4 problem and that also fixed the pump noise. Now when it gets noisy I just change the filter. Cheap & easy. Rob becida@comcast.net
At 12/18/2011 07:33 AM,Steven Shelton wrote: >In October my 1985 1.9 L Camper started making a buzzing noise climbing up >a steep mountain in Ashville, N.C. It's so intermittent I couldn't get out >of the van quick enough to trace it down until last week, when we pulled >into a campground and it continued long enough to find out it's coming from >the fuel pump. This is a VW pump dealership installed only last June! The >engine idles fine even when it's making noise. Is this a defective pump or >is there some other reason this could be happening? I'm sure if I take it >to the dealership it will be completely silent when they look at it. |
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