85 5000S fuel pump short?

[timofej.crift at att.net]

Your pump is toast.  The sparks you get are the parts
inside grounding out.

Tim Crift
> My friends audi has an intermittent short somewhere in
> the fuel pump circuit. Sometimes it runs fine. When it
> doesn't, I remove the pump relay and jumper it, but
> the wire just sparks like it's going to ground
> (I jumpered the fuse too so it wouldn't instantly
> blow).
>
> Pulled the pump, and am wondering:
> what's its resistance supposed to be (I'm getting 0)?
> Is the case supposed to be isolated from the circuit?
> On this one there's no resistance between the
> terminals and the case.
>
> If it's not the pump that's at fault, are there any
> "problem areas" that are particularly susceptible
> to shorting?
>
> Thanks
>
>
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