<VV> Fuel Pump(s)

[Tony Underwood]

At 05:01 hours 04/26/2005, Bill Elliott wrote:
>  The vendor I purchased the last one from has since discontinued
> >selling these pumps (The source) because of such high failure rates.
>
>
>That is not accurate. The Source pumps had an extremely low failure rate 
>(at least after the late 80's). He discontinued them because he could no 
>longer get
>pumps from his preferred manufacturer and he could not find a suitable 
>replacement manufacturer that would build to his specs.  I have never had 
>a Source
>pump fail. I've had pumps fail from every other vendor.
>
>Bill Ellliott




And AGAIN, it's EASY to identify the good pumps from the bogus pumps which 
ended up on the markets for a while and still show up now and 
again.   There's still a few bogus pumps sitting on warehouse shelves, 
waiting to leak fuel into a Vair engine upon installation.


I will ALWAYS pick a mechanical pump over the electric if I have a choice, 
simply because the RIGHT pump will work well for 20 years or more without 
any trouble.    The incorrect pump can be depended upon to cause trouble 
and leak because of an insistence by a gasket manufacturer that their 
unreinforced diaphragm material *would* hold up in pump service when it 
certainly would NOT.   And, didn't.

And once more, I state that it's so easy to identify the bad pumps from the 
good ones simply by LOOKING at the side of the pump...

All my stuff has mechanical pumps, and they ALL run fine with them and I 
have NO failures among any of them.    Last pump I bought was from a west 
coast vendor, and it's working fine.   I've since checked out several pumps 
carried by an east coast vendor and the ones I saw in his stash were all 
correct.

I'd not be afraid of any mechanical pump as long as it's the RIGHT pump, 
made to the same specs as the originals.   And these pumps ARE still out 
there.



tony..