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Yay Fuel Pump! Advice Please
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Posted by JonInAtl [Email] (more from JonInAtl) on Fri, 3 Jun 2016 04:36:02 Share Post by Email
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Last week I was supposed to be driving my 88 Turbo from Atlanta to St. Louis for a car club event.
We were leaving on the 24th. On Sunday the 22nd I said "Lets take the Airflow to lunch just to make sure everything is still running well".

It didn't go well.

Drove 30miles to the restaurant with no issues at all, parked, ate, came back out and the car wouldn't start. Checked for spark- plenty.

When I bought the car a couple years ago I went through and replaced the relays, including the LH and Fuel Pump relays above the passenger footwell (Mine doesn't have the FP relay in the fuse block... of course) with new Bosch parts.

Anyway we eventually got the car back home with the help of a friend with a car trailer.
Pulled the hatch floor to make sure the pump was getting voltage. My pump "hangs" in what looks like a rubber toilet plunger from the top of the tank... not the white plastic ring assembly I've encountered before.

I disconnected the plugs and checked with a voltmeter- pump voltage was fine.
Reconnected the wires and cranked the car on a whim. Of course it started right up.
Well I know better than to take a car with an intermittent problem cross country so it stayed home and missed being in the show while we took once of my other cars.

The car has 218k miles on it. I assume the pumps have been replaced once before but God knows when so when we returned this past Monday I ordered the Bosch pump and Proparts feeder pump (yeah I know but I couldn't find a feeder pump by anyone else) along with a new strainer sock (already have a new filter sitting in the garage).

FedEx should be delivering them today.

Is there anything I need to know ahead of time?
Any tips/tricks/gotchas I need to be aware of?
I appreciate any and all advice from those who've gone before :)

Jon
Atlanta
'88 900Turbo AIrflow
'06 9-5 Aero
'15 Fiat 500 (not a Saab but still "quirky" and I love it anyway)


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