I guess I will try and come forward again since this is a thread
that currently relates to me. I am a lurker and a newbie. I tried
writing to the list a couple of weeks ago but I have no clue if it made
it. I am skeptical that this message will make it.
Last week I accelerated hard around a corner. After getting off
the accelerator my baby started running poorly. I pulled into a parking
lot. I idled only slitly rough. When I tried to accelerate, it would
lose power and almost stall. I was able to make it to a safe parking
lot, that is one that I have a permit to park in. After turning off the
car and checking everything I could think of, the beast decided to play
finicky and not start at all. I double checked to see if I was getting
fuel and sure enough I wasn't. So I stuck my head in the trunk and
couldn't hear my fuel pump like I usually can. Got under the car and
gave it a few wacks, still didn't work. It is raining and about 40
degrees F, so I get back under and bet the f^(k out of the fuel pump,
still nothing.
Tomorrow I will check to see if I am getting electricity to it,
but I don't think this is problem. I checked all the fuses and
everything else on the car is getting power. I think it will need
replacing. My father, the VW mechanic, suggested the Facet, square fuel
pump. So today I call most of the big parts stores, i.e., Schucks, NAPA,
Al's. They all try to sell me an SU fuel pump at anywhere from $80 to
$210. They say they don't know of Facet and any universal fuel pump will
require modifications.
Are there modifications? If so, what? Where do I get a Facet
fuel pump?, and soon, I need to make it to the other side of the state
this coming up weekend. Are there any other reliable, but cheap fuel
pumps?, after all I am a college student (no money).
Thanks for any help you can offer me. That is if this letter
even makes it to the list. I am part of the new generation and I still
really don't understand these contraptions called computers, thats not to
say I don't appreciate them.
Robert Daugherty
Bellingham, Wa.
1978 MGB (Same age as me)
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