Damn

[Vincent Gelinas]

On 11/16/2010 9:32 PM, Huw Powell wrote:
>
>
> On 11/16/2010 9:09 PM, Louis-Alain Richard wrote:
>>>>>       Well, after replacing the fuel pump and that not having any 
>>>>> effect
>> on
>>>>>       the running of my car
>>
>>>>    Sadly predictable.  It's "never" the fuel pump...
>>
>> And the corollary : it's always ignition...
>
> Excellent point.  Especially on a car where the fuel pump relay turns 
> off if there's no good coil signal (ie, no spark).
>
> When my '57 loader was running like crap, I threw a dwell meter on it 
> and it read 1-2 degrees (not good).  Simply drawing a feeler gauge 
> through the points (get the awful pun above now?) was enough to get it 
> back to 45 degrees (cleaned them).
>
> Oh well, at least the car now has a good, quiet fuel pump in it.
>
  Definitely good to know.  I learned something new.  Excellent story, 
Louis.  I didn't know that fuel pumps rarely go bad.  Mine was whining 
like hell and looked nothing like the OEM part, so I figured it was a 
good insurance measure.

Any idea of what could have caused the carbon brush to disappear?

V

ps - I saw the pics of that '57 loader.  It looks beastly! :D

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Vincent Gelinas
1989 Audi 90q
2.3 NG
5 speed