Avant died and reborn again...

Kneale Brownson knotnook at traverse.com
Sun Mar 7 17:31:47 EST 2004


I had a couple instances of fuel pump/fuel pump relay failure before the
pump finally quit for good (won't run when hooked to a battery).  They were
only a few weeks apart.  The last time, I had to bring the car home with a
flatbed to get it to where I could work on it.  

At 08:01 AM 3/7/2004 -0800, the Spaeth's wrote:
>So I have been driving the car around and with the info on the BPV 
>problem I tried doing some sudden deceleration and hard braking and I 
>could not get a stall. The car is running perfect again. I hate to send 
>her off to work in it, but I can't seem to find anything that seems out 
>of sorts. Do these fuel pumps generally have a life span? Ours is going 
>on 160,000 miles. It has been meticulously maintained. The fuel pump has 
>been suggested by a few people. I really appreciate all of the input. 
>Sometimes on this intermittent stuff all you can go on is a hunch.



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