I found a Czech fool pump in 'er.Production dates?

[Wallace White]

Scott -

I have gathered that production in the Czech Republic began roughly five
years. Was the Czech Republic even a country in 1990?

- Wallace
   '87 5kcstq 190k

scott thomas wrote:
> Ok, my new to me 90 200q. Lots of new parts. The car was owned by
> someone that babied it its entire life and replaced nearly
> everything. Anyway, the reason why I added that in was because of my
> suspicion that the fool pump must have been previously replaced, but
> was noisy. I didn't experience poor performance, just noise. Lots of
> it. I decided to pull the pump and replace it with one of my known
> good german units from my collection. The pump in there was the damn
> Czech unit bosch made that was known to be noisy. Anyhow, I wanted to
> know if they were ever installed from the factory, and when they were
> made. The case looks the same, but the pickup is different from the
> 5000 style pumps I have (but they're probably the same). Anyhow, good
> job on the newer baffling. Also, the original screen was on it, as
> well as the baffle screen that encloses it. Both were pretty dirty.
> So was the tank. Hopefully the used check valve from my old car cures
> the starting issue...
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