<VV> Fuel Pump failures

[Tony Underwood]

At 10:03 hours 09/12/2005, you wrote:
>Hey Tony,
>
>It was certainly at least 10 and maybe more (probably 12 or so) 
>years since the run of bad pumps was an issue.

Around here it hadn't really become an issue until maybe the late 
'90s although I had been hearing about the bogus pumps for some time 
before then.   As mentioned, the first bogus pump I bought was about 
6-7 years ago although I'm sure they'd been around longer than that.


>About that time, I had put on a NEW GM pump which failed immediately 
>out of the box.  So, add that data point to your thinking.


Now, I've spoken to a few people who had similar instances with a new 
in box GM pump.   Seems someone in some sort of high place had reason 
to believe that there were some GM pumps floating around which were 
indeed "new" but were over 20 years old, been sitting in warehouses 
for many years.    Made sense.


>That said, I also prefer the AC pumps.

They do have the best castings in my experience.   They have mass and 
they feel "hefty".     I recall some few years back when a couple of 
us were removing a Vair driveline and while wrestling the engine 
around, someone grabbed the fuel pump to tug on the engine and the 
pump snapped off, bottom section broke cleanly off the body of the 
pump.   I still have the top part of the fuel pump in the basement, 
likely candidate to swap out the bottom part and make it "good" 
again, maybe.

Evidently an aftermarket replacement; I don't think a GM pump would 
have cracked off that easy, left dangling from the fuel lines.


tony..