Last 5ktq Fool Pump Q...I hope

[Kneale Brownson]

Did you have any gunk collected on the screen for the original pump?  If 
not, I'd say your tank isn't flaking and I'd leave the screen on the pump 
just like Audi & Bosch intended.   I think screen removal was a TSB 
suggestion for cars where the tank lining had been coming off in pieces 
that could plug up the screen and starve the pump, which leads to early 
demise from lack of cooling by the fuel.  If the pump you removed has 
nothing on the screen and if you see no sign of stuff floating in the gas, 
I'd elect to keep the screen.



At 11:12 AM 03/09/2001 -0800, Motor Sport Visions Photography wrote:

>Just received the Bosch FP from Rod at TPC today and plan to put it in
>tomorrow. (BTW, Rod told me that the Pierberg substitute requires
>mounting bracket modifications and he had the Bosch ones on sale for
>$169.00 so I went for the Bosch...)
>
>My question is about the screen I have read many posts about here in the
>past (that I believe there is also an Audi TSB on). (Car is a 1987
>5kcstq.) Is the screen I am to remove, if present, the one on the pump
>itself or is it located on the pump's mounting bracket? The new Bosch
>pump I just received does have a fine mesh screen on the bottom...am I
>to remove that or leave it alone?
>
>TIA for any replies on this before I put it in the car tomorrow.
>
>Mike Veglia
>Motor Sport Visions Photography
>http://www.motorsportvisions.com
>