all this fuel pump talk czech screen

[Wallace White]

That's interesting, Scott. I just spoke with the mechanic next door about
these pumps. He was familiar with the issue of flaking tank coatings; his
advice is to clean off the intake screen but not remove it.

He removed that screen once... and the customer's car was towed back the next
day. Theory being that the roller pump is not able to munch particles through
it... I'm sure it can get damaged by remnants of the wire screen getting
ingested!

Many listers have run pumps for years without screens, right? I understand
Audi instructed this in a TSB, though I wonder why Bosch still ships them with
the screens...

- Wallace
  '87 5kcstq 190k

"scott thomas" <scott at dreamtheater.zzn.com> wrote:
> I rmoved the czech pump's screen, and I also removed the bottom
> screen from the "basket" that holds the 200's pump in (different from
> the 5k). Made no difference. I can tell, however that the pump is
> good, but noisy. It has very low miles on it, my best guess is <30k
> miles. My car was not used for one year before I bought it, as well
> as the meticulous maintainance of the previous owner.
>
> Oh yeah, while I was there, I cleaned the bottom of the tank pickup
> area with those non absorbing paper towels you get at the public
> restrooms (they don't soak gas like a sponge). There was lots of crap
> down there. I'v got on of my oldie, but goodie german fool pumps in
> there.
>
> Oh yeah, I think NAPA/Echlin still makes a good replacement fuel pump
> for a reasonable price, when compared to the Bosch. I used to work at
> a Napa years ago and saw this to be the case.
>
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