Re: fuel pump noise?

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <3.0.5.32.19990317150846.00a00b10@phy.duke.edu> Andrei Kogan writes:

> There have been a few posts regarding noisy fuel pumps recently.

> Can someone describe to me what it sounds like when it is about to go bad?

It's a buzz intermixed with a kind of nasal whine.

Any noise is to be avoided, but people _have_ driven 10s of thousands
of miles with noisy pumps.  Wavering in the sound seems a bad sign -
once they start to make several different notes they're on the way
out.

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