fuel pump death song

[Dave Glubrecht]

These can sing this song a long time.  Mine started making undulations and
very loud before it quit.
Upon disassembly I found nearly everything inside bad.  A few weeks before
it quit it was unable to put out enough volume at pressure and I lost WOT
above 4k.  The final breakage was that the pump had worn enough to shear the
drive pins.  The armature was running out of contact surface too.  I knew
over a year in advance that it was bad but decided to see how long it would
last.  Breakage was as expected in that it did not die in a bad spot, just
refused to start when leaving work.  Because the pump still ran (electrical
portion) the diagnosis was simple because the pump now suddenly sounded
right.   I have a car trailer and the vehicle was not taken further from
home than I wanted to tow it.  It died ~2 mi from home.
   Dave G

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alexander van Gerbig" <Audi_80 at email.msn.com>
To: <quattro at audifans.com>; "Brett Dikeman" <brett at cloud9.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 6:10 PM
Subject: Re: fuel pump death song


>     Ah nice to hear someone with the same exact experience in their day.
> Today when I pulled in at home I noticed an unusually loud buzzing, opened
> the door, fool pump humming away 60db too high.  Gotta be the heat, about
> 1/3 tank too, hadn't experienced anything even similar to this level of
buzz
> since I bought the car.  I was just about to replace that soaked CD
changer,
> fuel pump is about the same price, sigh...
>
> Alexander van Gerbig
> '91 200q20v (Crunched)
> '90 90q20v (Sport)
> '88 80t (R.I.P)
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