Fuel Pump Epidemic??
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Fuel Pump Epidemic??
A year ago when I got my 91 5.0 f250, I replaced the gas tank, fuel pump, sender unit, sender assembly (it didn't come with any of these parts). Since this is a 91, it only has the one fuel pump in the tank. Anyhow, one month after the one year warantee went out, the new pump I put in failed. I took it back out, bench tested it to confirm. Yesterday I put a new one in, and this one failed after 10 minutes of use.
Could there be some factor that is causing them to fail? The first came from Rock Auto, the second from Autozone, neither one of them Ford parts. Could I just be experiencing really bad luck with inferior parts? Dropping the tank is getting kind of old.
Could there be some factor that is causing them to fail? The first came from Rock Auto, the second from Autozone, neither one of them Ford parts. Could I just be experiencing really bad luck with inferior parts? Dropping the tank is getting kind of old.
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The truck had apparantly had the common problem of dual tank trucks, where the fuel flows between the tanks, so the previous owner took it apart, threw away all of the original tanks, etc, and got a bunch of junk yard parts that were in pretty crappy condition and not even right, for the most part. I picked up the truck for a song, threw out the junk yard parts and put all new parts in there, still came out ahead on the deal.
I only replaced the front tank and have no rear tank at all, I pretty much drive locally anyhow.
I only replaced the front tank and have no rear tank at all, I pretty much drive locally anyhow.
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Well, one crapped out while it was sitting, the second while I was driving. I did have to jump start the truck at some point before they each failed, due to a dying battery, but I would think that there are plenty of other things that would get damaged by a voltage spike before the fuel pump... my dash volt meter is in the happy zone, havent measured it with my multimeter yet though...
