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Fuel Pump R&R
Comments about fuel pump replacement, baed on 1990 200:
This is a NASTY job, mainly because you spend so much time breathing
in straight unleaded fuel fumes...which is supposed to be a major
health no-no. I was spitting gasoline fumes for 24 hours afterwards,
even with a small fan in one corner of the trunk moving air.
If I do this again - EVER - I will seriously consider airing up a
scuba tank and using my regulator for air...I really detested this
aspect of the process.
As far as the tool deal, the retaining ring on top of the tank is a
mild steel and unlikely to make sparks. I used a flad-blade
screwdriver and tapped the handle with my hand to rotate it out of
the way.
You can expect that the fuel lines will run and drip miserably and
continuously once disconnected, adding to the fuel inhalation
miseries.
Ths fuel pump should be pulled with tha tank as LOW as possible. 1/3
or less is best.
I was stalled the first time I went into this because I could NOT get
the unit on top of the tank up high enough to get under it. I
finally figured out (with the help of some list-members) that the
main hose running to it had crept back through a retaining ring, so
there wasn't enough slack to get the top unit out of the way. I
finally got a screwdriver into the 3" gap I could generate and
released that line; once it fell down loose I could unplug the
electrical leads and move the unit. I retrieved the hose and pulled
slack through the retaining ring in the tank.
The pump in mine had no permanent screen at all - just a "basket"
screen which clipped onto it. There would have been no filtering at
the tank without it, so I re-installed the screen and re-assembled
everything.
Cheers...
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Al Powell, PhD Ph: 409/845-2807
Ag Communications Fax: 409/862-1202
Texas A&M University
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