[s-cars] Almost No-start question

[Dave Forgie]

Pull the carpet off the trunk hump.  Look at the screws on the fuel pump
access cover.  If they look virgin, then you have to guess that the pump
has never been changed.  If they are mangled a bit, you have to guess it
has been changed.

If you can't tell, I would err on the side of conservatism (and
reliability) and would change the pump.  Costs about $120.  Instructions
at:

http://www.elektro.com/~audi/fuelpump

Dave F.

>>> "Mike Claire" <mike.claire at gmail.com> 03/10/07 09:53AM >>>
I bought my '93 with 109K and no records.  Anything external clues I
can
look for that might tell if the pump has been replaced?  (kind of like
seeing a cut passenger carpet hints that the car's been chipped?)


Mike


On 3/10/07, Dave Forgie <forgied at ae.ca> wrote:
>
> Calvin:  In tracking down and fixing your fuel related problem, I
would
> not say replacing your fuel pump was necessarily "dumb".  If it was
the
> original pump, it was only a matter of (a short) time before it
failed
> anyway (in all likelihood).  So what you did was pre-emptively save
> yourself a lot of grief. (This presumes that you changed the pump
> yourself so the $$ outlay was minimal).
>
> Personally, I would not have suspected the FPR as a culprit in a
> non-start situation so this thread has taught me something
(hopefully
> not for future reference).  I replaced my FPR as a precautionary
measure
> when I upgraded from stock to RS2 spec.
>
> Dave F.
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