Another 1 bites the dust; Was: Bosch fuel pump death

Wallace White wallace at stanfordalumni.org
Tue Sep 24 08:33:48 EDT 2002


Joshua Van tol wrote:
>
> Have you checked the fuel pump relay? Those are very shoddily
> constructed IMHO, and could cause a problem like you describe. If you
> remove it, pop the cover off and look at it you can see if it has
> failed solder joints. If you do decide to touch them up, watch out for
> leaving any loose balls of solder in there to cause a short and destroy
> the fuel pump driver in your ECU like I did. I still have spare
> transistors btw, if anyone needs one.

I haven't suspected it as I could hear the fuel pump running and
warbling as the car slowed to a stop. I'll give it a check, though. Thanks.

- Wallace
   '87 5kcstq 190k




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