Fuel Pump sound? - 86 5KS

[Pat Dooley]

I solved my loud fuel pump problem by removing the clogged mesh screen over
the pump inlet.

Anybody who heard my pump would swear it was about to die.  Not so.  It
still works fine months later with no noise.

Pat, 5kt

> -----Original Message-----
> From: quattro-admin at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-admin at audifans.com]On
> Behalf Of Aleksander Mierzwa
> Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 8:11 AM
> To: Marty Hadden; quattro at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: Fuel Pump sound? - 86 5KS
>
>
> At 13:34 00-09-05 EDT, Marty Hadden wrote:
>
> >I stopped in the drive thru at lunch today.. and noticed, for lack of a
> >better description, a sound from fuel pump area, that sounded
> just like my
> >wiper motor when it's activated, *except* noticably louder, as I
> could hear
> >it over the engine and exhaust.  When the car was moving again,
> it stopped.
> >Must have been like this for 3-5 min.  When I stopped again, the
> noise was
> >gone.  Telltale sign of a dying fuel pump?  I have never heard
> this before
> >on any of my previous Audis.  Any ideas?
>
> Unless you were very low on fuel (which causes the pump to run dry for a
> couple of seconds during braking), your fuel pump is on the way out.
>
> --
> Aleksander Mierzwa
> Warsaw, Poland
> 87 5KT
>
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