Fuel pumps are a bastard thing!!!

Post by **luxdriver** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 10:24 pm

Just a bit of a vent because i did a trip to Fraser Island over new years (round-about way cos i drove to Townsville for chrissy did Fraser on way back) and had the pump pack it in about 15km's out of Proserpine. I have a hilux with a 22R engine and couldnt believe how hard it was to source, ended up finding one at an arse end of no-where mechanic in Proserpine.

The thing just packed it in and the replacement was $80, five minute job to fit and away we went (four hour delay but). The point is the part was cheap as chips and if we hadnt had one my entire trip would've been rooted! Definately a standard inclusion in my spare parts packet from now on..

Post by **lost in da 80's** » Sat Jan 07, 2006 5:21 pm

Can sympathise although I think you got out of it lightly. our 80 series fuel pump is $600 genuine and $300 after market and instead of a 4hr wait we can't get one until Monday. At least ours died in the gutter outside our house, it could have been worse because 2 days prior we were treking around Mt Sterling which is 500kms from home, and then the day after that we were up to our a....xle in mud!

Post by **Dingo** » Sat Jan 07, 2006 7:34 pm

lucky it isn't a deisel.

Post by **NiftyNev** » Sat Jan 07, 2006 8:30 pm

Dingo wrote:lucky it isn't a deisel.

Yeah. I don't know why they are complaining. I won't mention how much a full rebuild was for mine.

Nev

Post by **rojak** » Sat Jan 07, 2006 8:34 pm

The change to low sulphar cost me $2K to get the pump rebuilt

Post by **Dingo** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 7:53 am

NiftyNev wrote:
Dingo wrote:lucky it isn't a deisel.
Yeah. I don't know why they are complaining. I won't mention how much a full rebuild was for mine.

Nev

Or even how long a deisel is off the road for while it gets rebuilt

, unless you can get an exhange unit.

Bloody whinging petrol owners

Post by **NiftyNev** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 10:54 am

Dingo wrote: Bloody whinging petrol owners

Get them to remove and reinstall a diesel pump from a Surf and then I'm sure they will not complain about their pump again.

Nev

Post by **luxdriver** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 7:46 pm

not the cost that i was worried about, just the fact that we were on the side of the highway in forty degree heat and for the first two hours i thought the fraser trip was rooted! I agree i got out lightly, eighty bucks still seems too cheap..

Post by **pongo** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 8:55 pm

Have seen the primer bulb off outboard motors used as a substitute for a fuel pump. Can also mount something on the bonnet and gravity feed too keep ya going. we did a pump in a 302 fairlaine at maryborough. We lost a good 6 hours .

Cheers

Post by **chevJ40** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 9:03 pm

diesel and petrol owners are both whingers ever tried to replace a gas pump.... heh just jking nuthing like running a truck on bbq fuel
cheers

robbo

Post by **crankycruiser** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 9:40 pm

sounds to me like the diesel boys are having a good crack at whinging

Post by **g35me** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 9:40 am

We went to Fraser over christmas as well. A day before leaving I decided to try it out on petrol because I pretty much only run it on gas and relised that the fuel pump was not working at all...thank god for Repco, they had one in stock on Sunday. Replaced it no worries.

Start it up and driving around realise that it is running like a bucket of shit oin petrol and basically not drivable at all. No one can look at the thing over christmas so I thought that trip to Fraser was over.

I then on the morning of leaving drained the petrol out of the tank and replaced the fuel filter and everything was great.

I then drove from Melbourne to Gympy(sic) replacing a radiator on the side of the road (thankyou Repco again) used a complete tank of unleaded on the trip up and then ran out of gas 70k's from Fraser so I decided to swap to petrol and what do you know, it fucked up again.

So I decided to replace the fuel pump again. Didnt solve the problem. So after driving that far and suffering numerous over heating problems I was not going to turn around. So over to the island we go on one tank of gas only.

Consequently every time I needed fuel I had to go back across on the barge. Very expensive tanks of gas.

Post by **crankycruiser** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 9:50 am

brian haines wrote:We went to Fraser over christmas as well. A day before leaving I decided to try it out on petrol because I pretty much only run it on gas and relised that the fuel pump was not working at all...thank god for Repco, they had one in stock on Sunday. Replaced it no worries.

Start it up and driving around realise that it is running like a bucket of shit oin petrol and basically not drivable at all. No one can look at the thing over christmas so I thought that trip to Fraser was over.

I then on the morning of leaving drained the petrol out of the tank and replaced the fuel filter and everything was great.

I then drove from Melbourne to Gympy(sic) replacing a radiator on the side of the road (thankyou Repco again) used a complete tank of unleaded on the trip up and then ran out of gas 70k's from Fraser so I decided to swap to petrol and what do you know, it ***** up again.

So I decided to replace the fuel pump again. Didnt solve the problem. So after driving that far and suffering numerous over heating problems I was not going to turn around. So over to the island we go on one tank of gas only.

Consequently every time I needed fuel I had to go back across on the barge. Very expensive tanks of gas.

Hey Brian..

Wat ended up being the problem???

Post by **g35me** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 7:30 pm

Still not sure what the problem is. Might be blocked injectors. I only got back a few days ago so I havent had a chance to look at it yet. Because it runs on gas I dont think it will be a priority either.

Worried about the overheating problem. Replaced thermostat, new radiator. Full of coolant and I am running a 16' and 12' dual thermo fans on the radiator and it is still heating up BAD. (great for sand driving)

Any Ideas.

Looks like the V8 will be going in sooner rather than later with all the problems I have been having.

Post by **crankycruiser** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 10:24 pm

brian haines wrote:Still not sure what the problem is. Might be blocked injectors. I only got back a few days ago so I havent had a chance to look at it yet. Because it runs on gas I dont think it will be a priority either.

Worried about the overheating problem. Replaced thermostat, new radiator. Full of coolant and I am running a 16' and 12' dual thermo fans on the radiator and it is still heating up BAD. (great for sand driving)

Any Ideas.

Looks like the V8 will be going in sooner rather than later with all the problems I have been having.

Ditch the thermos would be a good start...

Post by **luxdriver** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 4:38 pm

you poor bastard!

brian haines wrote:We went to Fraser over christmas as well. A day before leaving I decided to try it out on petrol because I pretty much only run it on gas and relised that the fuel pump was not working at all...thank god for Repco, they had one in stock on Sunday. Replaced it no worries.

Start it up and driving around realise that it is running like a bucket of shit oin petrol and basically not drivable at all. No one can look at the thing over christmas so I thought that trip to Fraser was over.

I then on the morning of leaving drained the petrol out of the tank and replaced the fuel filter and everything was great.

I then drove from Melbourne to Gympy(sic) replacing a radiator on the side of the road (thankyou Repco again) used a complete tank of unleaded on the trip up and then ran out of gas 70k's from Fraser so I decided to swap to petrol and what do you know, it ***** up again.

So I decided to replace the fuel pump again. Didnt solve the problem. So after driving that far and suffering numerous over heating problems I was not going to turn around. So over to the island we go on one tank of gas only.

Consequently every time I needed fuel I had to go back across on the barge. Very expensive tanks of gas.

Post by **luxdriver** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 4:40 pm

If it was me i'd be checking out the water pump and if you havent already.

crankycruiser wrote:
brian haines wrote:Still not sure what the problem is. Might be blocked injectors. I only got back a few days ago so I havent had a chance to look at it yet. Because it runs on gas I dont think it will be a priority either.

Worried about the overheating problem. Replaced thermostat, new radiator. Full of coolant and I am running a 16' and 12' dual thermo fans on the radiator and it is still heating up BAD. (great for sand driving)

Any Ideas.

Looks like the V8 will be going in sooner rather than later with all the problems I have been having.
Ditch the thermos would be a good start...

Post by **+dj_hansen+** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 8:21 pm

Dingo wrote:
NiftyNev wrote:
Dingo wrote:lucky it isn't a deisel.
Yeah. I don't know why they are complaining. I won't mention how much a full rebuild was for mine.

Nev
Or even how long a deisel is off the road for while it gets rebuilt , unless you can get an exhange unit.

Bloody whinging petrol owners

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