Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 17:53:21 -0400 From: cnopsamspring.com Subject: Re: Fuel Pump Problem?
hey man, down here in the south we like to bang on things, use bailing wire or clothes hangers, even chewing gum. i once used a potatoe for a gas cap. we also get lots of miles on our old clunkers and spend our money on beer. how do we do it? JUNK YARDS scrap your vanity and go junking. pick you up a six pack and go junking. don't look just for what you need, look around and you might see that there is a wealth of parts. so go get you a junk yard fuel pump but be sure that you don't over pay and be sure you get a warranty (yeh right) wish you luck man one more word of wisdom if you'd bought $1000.00 worth of nortel in 1999 it would be worth $49.00, but, if instead you'd have bought $1000.00 worth of budwiser (the beer not the stock) and you'd have drank the beer and sold the cans you'd have $79.00. you wouldn't have given a shit what the markets are doing either. Choupyt wrote: > I have a 1990 SAAB 900 (hatchback). Recenlty after not using the car > for a 2-week period, it wouldn't start although the starter revved up > pretty good. It wasn't a battery problem. > > I was all set to have the car towed to a local garage I trust when I > decided to try starting it again. This time It sputtered a bit and > died -- acting as if it ran out of fuel (although I had a full tank of > gas). > > At that point, the tow truck driver told me that sometimes the fuel > pump "gets stuck" inside the gas tank. He then told me he was going > to try a trick that he recenlty learned. > > With his fist, he bangged real hard on the fuel tank (from > underneath). And bingo. When I tried again, the car started. This > was about 3 weeks ago, and I had no starting problem afterwards. > > Except for yesterday afternoon. Coming from work, the car wouldn't > start again, but I successfully used the same maneuver to get it to > start. > > The same sequence of events occured this morning. > > Now, I am told the price of a fuel tank for this car is close to $400 > (part only). Thus, my question is: Is it my only option to have the > fuel pump replaced? > > Any help, comments or suggestions would be much appreciated here. > > Thanks in advance.
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