Re: 5ktq fuel pump strainer clogging

["Ken Keith" <auditude@neta.com>]

Sachelle Babbar <sbabbar@iris.nyit.edu> wrote:
>
> Then how would you slip the pump through the pickup housing in the tank if
> it had this stuff on it? 

I don't know how tight a fit it is, but when I replaced the FP on my 
'88 5kcstq a number of weeks ago, it seemed like it might have fit.  
Are you referring to the plastic piece that goes over the pump body, 
that slides over the three pins and are retained by the plastic clips 
attached to the floor of the tank?  Is that the pickup housing, the 
thing that is on the bottom of the tank?  I do remember the pump 
body slid into a round hole in the bottom of that part of the tank.

Perhaps the screen could be attached and held on by the plastic 
two-piece part that holds the pump in that hole on the floor?

These are just thoughts, not proven methods.

> Whynot  just clean the tank out after you remove
> aqll the junk in way? If you get the fp out, get the pick up housing out
> (remember to index everything), siphon the last of the gas out and then
> with rags or paper towel, try to get all the crap you can.

That would work for the junk in the tank at that time, but you would 
no longer have any protection from the nasty stuff getting into the 
tank, and pump gears, from that point on.  I was trying to suggest 
a way to still have some sort of a screen in place.  Perhaps it's not 
possible or needed.  Maybe the original screen could be cleaned 
with some sort of solvent instead of removing it.  (I don't know why 
Audi wouldn't have suggest this instead tho', if it were possible.)

Ken