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Offline CAP1

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Question for you Texas residents
« on: July 20, 2009, 07:58:05 AM »
i have a customers car here.......actually it's the second one from them. they're air force, and from texas.

first one was a chevy pickup, with a 350. it had a bad fuel pump. it was different, as most chevys i have with fuel pump issues, won't run at all. this would run, just very very poorly.

 as soon as i finished the repair, he picked up his truck, and dropped his wifes honda civic. it has a lean code. ran through the testing, and it has low fuel pressure......with an intank fuel filter. seems i have to replace the fuel pump in this one too.

 so.......does anyone from down there know how they mix fuel? with ethenol i mean? is it stronger than here in jersey, or weaker?
 it just seems weird to me to have 2 bad fuel pumps from 2 cars from the same family...and they're both from texas.


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Re: Question for you Texas residents
« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2009, 08:35:43 AM »
You know all us Texans are millionaire oil magnets. We burn straight crude from the oil wells in our backyards. ;)

Seriously CAP we do use an ethenol mix, I don't know if it's stronger than what is beinig run in the Northeast. It's possible I don't believe all states run a uniform mix.
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Re: Question for you Texas residents
« Reply #2 on: July 20, 2009, 08:46:11 AM »
Could be all that sand they have in Texas... Gets in everything...
Spent some time down there, that was one of the things that I noticed most about it....
Sand sand sand!!!  Heck, it blows in the wind...

They say Texans have sand in their craw, Its TRUE, cuz of the sand in their food, ;)

Gotta say I liked the place tho!!!

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Re: Question for you Texas residents
« Reply #3 on: July 20, 2009, 08:50:28 AM »
Cap, I'm not from Texas, but spent 22 years in the AF.  Quite often we would get Crappy gas at the BX filling stations.  Infact I don't buy from the base where I am at, because my car runs bad on the gas, like it gets water in the system. 
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Re: Question for you Texas residents
« Reply #4 on: July 20, 2009, 09:15:56 AM »
be a good bet they fill up at the same crappy gas station, like one thats slow and doesnt get good fress fuel often.
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Re: Question for you Texas residents
« Reply #5 on: July 20, 2009, 09:43:30 AM »
Depends on what part of Texas they were in.  Here in Houston we can have up to 10% ethanol in the gas because of our bad air.
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Re: Question for you Texas residents
« Reply #6 on: July 20, 2009, 10:07:01 AM »
Quote from: spacer on July 20, 2009, 08:50:28 AM
Cap, I'm not from Texas, but spent 22 years in the AF.  Quite often we would get Crappy gas at the BX filling stations.  Infact I don't buy from the base where I am at, because my car runs bad on the gas, like it gets water in the system. 

yaknow...i hadn't thought of that.......good point. thanks! :aok
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Re: Question for you Texas residents
« Reply #7 on: July 20, 2009, 10:59:43 AM »
Yup 10% is the norm in Houston area and most of Texas. Most likely scenario is the bad gas cheap corner station one.
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Re: Question for you Texas residents
« Reply #8 on: July 20, 2009, 01:08:40 PM »
JUST TALKed to the vehicle owner. he's based in atlantic city, and she's on mcguire. he thinks she gets her gas on base, but he doesn't.
 they were un aware of keeping their tanks above 1/4, and this may be a possibility., the honda only has 80k on it, so in my eyes, it's young for a new fuelpump.

 they;re gonna try getting their gas at different places though.......
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Re: Question for you Texas residents
« Reply #9 on: July 20, 2009, 09:47:33 PM »
The on-base gas here had diesel contamination not once, not twice, but at least three times in one year.  They finally got the supplier to pay out for service for anyone who bought premium unleaded on base for almost a whole week.  And then a month later, they did the same thing again.

That said, my guess with those people is that "someone" (wifey?) ran the car out of gas and tried to crank it until the battery wouldn't crank anymore, then sat there with the radio running (and fuel pump spinning in an empty tank) until the fuel pump failed.  Don't ask me how I know this is a very possible chain of events...   :mad:
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Re: Question for you Texas residents
« Reply #10 on: July 20, 2009, 09:56:52 PM »
I have never had any fuel pump problems.   
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Re: Question for you Texas residents
« Reply #11 on: July 20, 2009, 10:54:26 PM »
Quote from: eagl on July 20, 2009, 09:47:33 PM
The on-base gas here had diesel contamination not once, not twice, but at least three times in one year.  They finally got the supplier to pay out for service for anyone who bought premium unleaded on base for almost a whole week.  And then a month later, they did the same thing again.

That said, my guess with those people is that "someone" (wifey?) ran the car out of gas and tried to crank it until the battery wouldn't crank anymore, then sat there with the radio running (and fuel pump spinning in an empty tank) until the fuel pump failed.  Don't ask me how I know this is a very possible chain of events...   :mad:

well....it can;t really happen that way...the fuelpump running i mean.......when you turn on the key, it cycles for 2 seconds,to pressurize the system, then stops till the engine is cranked.
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Re: Question for you Texas residents
« Reply #12 on: July 20, 2009, 11:07:24 PM »
i have only had 1 fuel pump problem but it was on a 67 ford pickup with so many miles on it that the odometer rolled back to zero twice  :uhoh

Quote from: RipChord929 on July 20, 2009, 08:46:11 AM
Could be all that sand they have in Texas... Gets in everything...
Spent some time down there, that was one of the things that I noticed most about it....
Sand sand sand!!!  Heck, it blows in the wind...

They say Texans have sand in their craw, Its TRUE, cuz of the sand in their food, ;)

Gotta say I liked the place tho!!!

RC


its not sand its dirt!!!  :aok
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Re: Question for you Texas residents
« Reply #13 on: July 21, 2009, 10:54:31 AM »
On your 67 it was mechanical. Much easier to change.
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Re: Question for you Texas residents
« Reply #14 on: July 21, 2009, 11:01:22 AM »
Quote from: Shuffler on July 21, 2009, 10:54:31 AM
On your 67 it was mechanical. Much easier to change.

YEP. drivers side mounted on the front timing cover. none of that pushrod poop like the chevys either.  :D

can change them out in less than 1/2 hour.
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