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Maybe expected a bit more...., Recent Fuel pump purchase |
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Apr 22 2023, 08:28 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 699 Joined: 28-July 14 From: Ephraim Wisconsin Member No.: 17,695 Region Association: Upper MidWest |
Not sure if I'm just ranting, venting or just verbalizing a bit of disappointment. And let me say that I fully accept and I don't expect any guarantees (unless a seller offers one) in buying a part on the World but I'm just a bit disappointed after my recent (september) purchase of what was supposedly a very nice (possibly NOS?) 3 port fuel pump for my 914. I bought it as a spare and then found reason to actually need it a couple of weeks ago. When my service guy installed it, it leaked terribly so I had to quickly buy a remanufactured one and overnight to my service garage.
Won't disclose the seller but he is one of the most highly respected contributors on the World. We negotiated a bit and I agreed to pay $600 for this part....premium money. I don't expect a refund but I sent a note to him telling him that the part was unusable. What did I expect? I guess maybe a "damn, really sorry about that" or some other simple acknowledgement that spending $600 in good faith and ending up needing to spend another $500 for a re-manufactured pump is a real bummer. But, no response. I guess in the end I am just venting and feeling like as a seller I would have handled it differently. But....I move on. |
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Apr 23 2023, 03:16 PM
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Get that VIN ? Group: Members Posts: 9,328 Joined: 1-May 03 From: Sunset Beach, CA Member No.: 643 Region Association: Southern California |
Question Re safekeeping: I have a spare fuel pump in a my emergency bag. Should I fill the pump with kerosene and plug up the ends? And, will the kerosene affect the gas as it passed through ?
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wonkipop |
Apr 23 2023, 05:22 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 4,412 Joined: 6-May 20 From: north antarctica Member No.: 24,231 Region Association: NineFourteenerVille |
Question Re safekeeping: I have a spare fuel pump in a my emergency bag. Should I fill the pump with kerosene and plug up the ends? And, will the kerosene affect the gas as it passed through ? thats an interesting one. i probably would not be driving around with a bagged fuel pump full of kero. but yes as @Superhawk996 notes. you flush it with fuel before use. thats a bit of a messy operation. you need a couple of plastic bottles with fuel in them and catch bottles. and you need to run it through a few times to flush it all out. you would do this first with the pump external to the car and running off a battery. Superhawk is correct on the chemistry of the kerosine. its almost like immersing the pump in oil. protects against internal corrosion, keeps seals moist and expanded and does not itself age and turn to goo. i would not store a pump full of petrol. that is never going to work. likewise if you pulled a pump off and wanted to keep it - first thing is to flush all fuel out of it. i might have to slightly disagree with Superhawk on a small detail. the whole body of the pump will be internally filled with kero. so it takes a little bit of running for the pump to eject all the kero out of the internals. the fuel in the pump is the lubricant for all the internals of the pump. its fully flooded with fuel normally. hence that pesky electrical plug gasket that is very painful to replace. most folks would not bother. i rebuilt my pumps just for the fun of it. i wasn't even sure i would be able to when i did but i had a shot at it. i knew the internals had not done a lot of hours so if i succeeded i would in fact have good pumps. to be truthful i did not think the pumps could be rebuilt until a guy with a citroen DS running D jet i met one day told me it could be done and he had done it. he sent me some photos of what he went through to rebuild. i followed his instructions. if you are interested my rebuild of the pumps is documented here. Sir Andy posted it up in the lepuwali section of the website. |
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