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

[Chris Hall]

If I knew for a fact that I was having the crazy kind of problem you
are having (possibly somewhere deep in a loom of 100 wires),  I'd
mount a switch inside the car to turn the fuel pump on and off and
wire everything directly to the battery  haha.  Hide the switch and
now you have a nice little anti-theft system  :)

On 6/7/05, Huw Powell <audi at humanspeakers.com> wrote:
> 
> > I guess another question I had was since the fuel pump
> > circuit is so prone to malfunction on these older Audis,
> > has anyone come across a way to switch it to something that
> > works better?
> 
> It's not really that bad... it just seems that way.
> 
> I remember many years ago reading that the single highest amateur
> "misdiagnosis" of a car not working properly was the fuel pump.  Heck,
> I've done it myself.
> 
> For instance, look at the current two or three threads on the
> occasionally dying '85 cgt - they say "fuel pump" and "fuel pump relay"
> over and over again, and yet the odds are the problem is nothing of the
> sort.
> 
> Add in the fact that we have these hard-working fuel pump relays (they
> often supply power to things like the OXS heater, too) that *turn off*
> if there is no spark, and more blame than is justified gets heaped on
> that system.
> 
> --
> Huw Powell
> 
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> 
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Chris Hall
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