Re: Fuel Pump R&R

[Arun Rao <rao@pixar.com>]

Al Powell wrote:
> 
> 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...
[..]

	I did mine on Saturday, and my experience was very different
	from yours, Al.  The job took about an hour, and was probably
	one of the easiest I've done on the car.  I think I spent
	more time pulling hoses off than I did actually replacing
	the fuel pump. As for the fumes, it was a bit much if you
	stuck your face in the opening, but I just reached in with one 
	(suitably-gloved) hand and disengaged the pump from its
	mounting by feel. I used latex surgical gloves on top of which
	I wore those thick yellow rubber household cleaning gloves. It
	gets a bit cold, but I had no trouble even with the tank 1/2 full.
	Maybe I have gasoline-immune genes :-)  Or it must be the
	childhood spent siphoning gas out of my Dad's old Standard 10!
> 
> You can expect that the fuel lines will run and drip miserably and
> continuously once disconnected, adding to the fuel inhalation
> miseries.

	Mine dripped a little when they were first disconnected, but
	were dry from then on.
[..]
> 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.

	Mine's an earlier design and has the integrated screen. The
	screen on the old pump didn't seem clogged, so I didn't worry
	about cutting it out on the new one.

	And the old one was truly dead ... the  terminals registered
	a fairly high resistance (very low on the new one, as it should
	be for a DC motor).

	Thanks for all the help, folks ... let's hear it for the 
	list!


	-Arun

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