Gas tank out
Now all I have to do is run to AutoZone and get a new fuel pump, and reinstall. Easy-peasy, japanesey.
Except Autozone, which has been open to 11:00 for the past eight years, is now closed at nine. I scrambled to get this down before ten, giving myself a comfortable margin, and the door is locked as i walk up.
So tomorrow morning I have an appointment and I must deal wiht that- and back to hammer away at this in the evening. Good lord.
So I button the tank up so it’s at least sealed, and come indoors.
What a monumental pain in my tuchas.
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I hear you. It’s like Rosanna Rosannadanna said: “Well, it just goes to show you, it’s always something.”
My fuel sender in the Z71 is going wonky. It and the fuel pump are one single expensive unit. I’m probably gonna wuss out and have someone do that one – I’m not wild about dropping the tank to get to it.
dont blame you there.
So, why the hell do all of our cars have to have the fuel tanks removed to get to a maintenance item like the fuel pump????
What a PITA. What would be wrong with a design that would allow us to service the fuel pump through an access plate in the trunk, floor, or bed of a pickup? My Alfa Romeo has such an access and it’s 20 years old. And Italian. Why does an Italian car have this and not an American car?
I thought about all of this when I was getting ready for a week-long hunting trip to a remote area. I was trying to include a number of spare parts for my truck so that I could perform field repairs if necessary when I realized that replacing an in-tank fuel pump would be impractical to impossible. It really pissed me off.
Oh man. The last time I checked in a couple weeks ago,
Wait, you were never going to darken my door!! I guess there must be more here than meets the eye, if you have to keep coming back. Or do you just like the abuse?
I got an education. I have one too. It’s worth more than all the education all your family ever gave you- it’s about human nature and being a decent human being. It’s why people like me, and people piss in your food, Jim.
I drive an 07 Dodge with the Hemi. I can afford vehicles that can get me to where I need to go without falling apart.
yeah, yeah. Hemi. My Escort had one. POS then, POS now. Go fuck yourself.
Either shit or get off the pot. I am. I’m doing everything according to spec. But then, you couldn’t even turn a wrench, you anencephalic crapulous toad.
I wonder why, if this is such a horrid website and I’m such a fool, Jim is so drawn to keep coming back?>It would certainly seem as if someone soooo busy and important would have something better to do than posting crap from hotel rooms.
Slash: I never got that either. Dad’s old Comet had an access cover in the trunk too- they must have lost tons of revenue to people who could do stuff themselves.
I still like the frame rail mounted electric pumps.
Jim! You’re back.
Let me get the popcorn. This should be good.
Okay, let’s do this a slightly different way, but I believe we’ll have the same results.
Remove the gas cap.
Tow old Exploder away.
Drive new car into place.
Reinstall gas cap.
Wait… Jim? Is that you?
Oh my… this is going to be delicious.
Things have been kinda crazy over at my place. So, please accept my very belated Merry Christmas. Hope it was a great one. And a somewhat belated Happy New Year. Here’s to a great ’08!!
Thanks so much for your kind and caring words. I’ve read through the comments for Gary several times the past week, you should know that they have helped. Again, thank you.
Is jim really back??
Jim: I got an education.
Og: I have one too.
How illustrative. Based on the above, I would say that Jim’s education ended sometime before the Fourth Grade and was poor at that. Og seems to have had a high quality education and it would be difficult to say at what level it ended (if he hadn’t mentioned it already), though I would say that Og is one of those guys who is constantly learning something.
Slash: That’s one thing I like about my Ancient (’76) Mercedes – there’s a trunk access cutout for getting to the fuel sender. Pull the trunk mat and pull off a piece of cardboard, and there’s your level sender. Good thing, too, since I have to pull it yearly or so to clean out the algae buildup.
And the fuel pump? Is mechanical. And attached to the (also mechanical) fuel injection pump. At the engine, as God intended.
(On the other hand, it’s got a pinhole leak at the top of the fuel tank (ie, it leaks only until you burn off that top gallon or so of fuel).
I pulled the tank to try and fix it with fuel-tank epoxy, but sadly it didn’t work out. Annoying as hell, though.
Since it’s a diesel and a fuel leak is thus “annoying” rather than “a car-destroying fire waiting to happen”, I’m living with it.)
That running out of gas thing could have damaged the pump, I will give up a prayer for you, I know how it is when a machine refuses to cooperate.
Slash- the backstory on this is that Jim is “well educated” and is SO much better than me in every way. Me, I’m an autodidact, and have learned most things the hard way. And I spend most of my life cleaning up the messes created by assholes like Jim who believe they could stop learning once they got their diploma. but Jim, who posts drivel here every time he ends upin a new hotel room, and thus a new IP, could, as he said, “Buy me out of pocket” at any time. I’ve offerer him the opportunity to prove anything he’s said, and of course, he cannot and will not. Just another waste of flesh, hiding behind the skirts of the internet. Dick wants to meet him. Actually, Jim is the guy in the right on this video.
http://santasm.net/
I’ve shit not only bigger, but far more educated turds than Jim.
God damned, punk ass know-it-all needs some wall to wall counseling.
As I read Jim’s post, it occurred to me that an educated man saying “I got an education” is very similar to the feeb you blogged about who said “Can I ask you a question?”
Sigivald – I remember following a Mercedes diesel once on the freeway while driving a VW Bug. I was a number of car-lengths back when I noticed a mist start to form on my windshield (not a cloud in the sky, BTW). Presently, the unmistakeable odor of medium range hydrocarbons wafted in through the vents. Yes, the MB was leaking fuel and my poor car was coated. So, I agree: It was annoying as hell.
All of my VWs have had access hatches to the top of the fuel tank. With the Rabbit (the only one I ever actually had to get to), you snapped out the rear seat and had the fuel pickup and sending unit out in about 5 minutes total. Didn’t even have to jack the thing up.
I thought that was the other guy in the santasm thingy.
No, Broad, that’s nefew.
No, that tool that who made that hideous crack about that guy’s deceased wife. What’s the nefews got to do with any of this? I’m confused!
Broad: ALL my trolls are scum. And I don’t differentiate much.
Actually I just wanted to get that mental image in your head.
Fucker. ;P
jdunmyer —
That fuel pump access hatch about the only thing on my Jetta that is designed correctly. Perhaps VW could apply some of that same engineering talent to designing window regulators that don’t break every 6 months, or disc brakes that don’t require three special tools for disassembly.
Dropping the tank on any of my Mopars to change the fuel pump is at least a half-day affair, assuming no broken bolts due to rust…grrr…I’m so looking forward to dropping the tank on my Ram 1500 when the time comes, it has a “no-maintenance (right…) in-tank fuel filter”.
Ham- have you thought about pre-lubing those screws/ on my mom’s car, I knew I was gonna have to change the pump, so I took the screws, lubed them, ran clean nuts up them, and coated them with heavy axle grease. When the time came to get them off, they uncrewed easy.
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