My own fuel pump saga- '84 4kq- (and some fixes)

[Huw Powell]

> My 4000s Quattro was doing this thing where it would just blow the
> fuel pump fuse at random times and it got to where I replaced the
> fuse with a circuit breaker so that I wouldn't have to carry three
> packs of fuses everywhere.

Just to interject here, when a fuse blows, unless you know exactly why 
it did and have eliminated the draw, you're not supposed to just replace 
the fuse, you have to find the problem and fix it first ...

> I wouldn't really recommend this because eventually some of the wires
> melted because it would trip and then reset, letting the overload
> through again...

... or you can make things a lot worse.

You probably have wires with melted insulation deep inside your 
harnesses now.  Incredibly difficult to troubleshoot, and a pain to fix.

-- 
Huw Powell

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