Re: fuel pump whines and car stalls

["Kurt Wesseling" <kurt.wesseling@nexusmgmt.com>]

George:

Sounds like the fuel pump is about to go south.  Soon it probably won't just
start again right away. Yes, the FP  *should* last more than two years, but
sometimes they don't.

I had this same type of thing happen on my '87 a few years ago.  It only
gave me two warnings in the form of stalling.  Then one morning in January I
was driving down the Maine turnpike at 85 mph when the car just shut off.
Not a good feeling--espically when it's -10 f degrees!  Replaced the pump,
and no more problems.

HTH,

--Kurt


----- Original Message -----
From: George Tur <gtur@lucent.com>
To: <quattro@audifans.com>
Sent: Monday, October 25, 1999 9:31 AM
Subject: fuel pump whines and car stalls


> Looking for some opinons on this. The 87 5kcstq has started to stall every
now
> and then. When it does stall the fuel pump whine becomes louder. Right
after the
> stall the car starts up and runs fine. This happens, oh, maybe once a day,
and
> not any particular time. Some times the car will run for 50 miles without
the
> stall, and other times it will stall within a mile of traveling. The fuel
pump
> was replaced about two yesrs ago, the injectors were done about two months
ago
> along with the fuel filter. My son, the car is his daily driver, thinks
that it
> is the fuel tank itself, that the crud in tank is choking the fuel flow.
I'm not
> so sure of this. I would think that if it is tank crud that the engine
would
> exhibit other symptoms, such as rough idling, poor pickup, and that it
wouldn't
> start right up after a stall. Any ideas about this?
>
> George Tur
> send to getur@bellatlantic.net after 6:00pm
>