[s-cars] Things that go bump in the night.

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Bob,
Not a single sound...I was driving on the freeway felt some hesitation  (like 
hitting the rev- limiter)...drove another 10-12 miles felt the hesitation  
twice came to a light RPM's went to zero and I could not start her up again..had 
 the car towed to my wrench who found one very dead fuel pump in the tank.
 
I hope this helps,
 
Regards,
 
Shawn
 
In a message dated 6/17/2006 10:55:47 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
bob at chips-ur-s.com writes:

Hmmm...  No warning noise from the pump.  Did yours get noisy  before it 
failed?

At 11:34 AM 6/17/2006, you wrote:

Bob,
I'm stretching here, but that is what it was like when my  fuel pump died a 
few months back...

Shawn
95 S6 MTM 
91  200q20v avant
Austin TX


In a message dated  6/16/2006 4:59:07 P.M. Central Daylight Time, 
bob at chips-ur-s.com  writes:


Hi Y'all,


Monday evening while driving home from Huntington (~110 miles) the  

engine ('95.5 S6 AAN-RS2ed w/ 1.8t coil conversion + other goodies)  

bucked once.  It felt like the ignition just cut out very briefly  - 

no more than 0.2 second or so, and about what the overboost cutout or  

the redline cutout feels like except not quite so dramatic due to 

lower performance level at the time.


This evening, on a much shorter trip (~10 miles), it happened several  

times more.  Usually it was just one very quick off/on cycle and  then 

all felt normal.  Once it was a double event -  off/on/off/on.  All of 

these times I was doing nothing unusual.  Mild speed, mild loud  

pedal, no major boost, nothing out of the ordinary.  Got home  

OK.  Left the ignition turned on (engine died in the garage -  another 

bump in the night?) hooked up VAG-COM and read codes - none  found.