Question for you Texas residents

[FX1]

Never had a fuel pump problem.

[branch37]

On your 67 it was mechanical. Much easier to change.

yep right behind the drivers seat, i changed the pump and the fuel gauge system in about 2 hours.

[1pLUs44]

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

Looks like you've never been to Central/East Texas.

[CAP1]

yep right behind the drivers seat, i changed the pump and the fuel gauge system in about 2 hours.

you had a 67 ford with the fuelpump INSIDE, and behind the drivers seat?

 who was the twit that ran fuel lines inside like that?

 60's cars and trucks had mechanical fuelpumps, mounted directly on the engine.

fords had the pump mounted up high, so as to be directly driven by the camshaft. gm;s were mooounted lower, and had a pushrod that went up to the cam. i forget how chryslers were mounted.

 

[eagl]

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.

Apparently it works that way in every car but my firebird...   

Did you know the only two ways to change a fuel pump in a 4th gen f-body are to drop the whole rear axle or cut a hole in the floor pan?

[CAP1]

Apparently it works that way in every car but my firebird...   

Did you know the only two ways to change a fuel pump in a 4th gen f-body are to drop the whole rear axle or cut a hole in the floor pan?

i do now. 

i remember the IROC's. i HATED doing them.

seems like they hired a disgruntled ford engineer to design that poop under there. 

yours may have had a bad relay. what year was it?

if it was the iroc body type, they had the relays right next to the radiator(i think). they were common to go bad too.

[eagl]

Not IROC, 4th gen (1998) firebird.  Wifey ran it out of gas twice, and that's a known way to burn out the fuel pump, guaranteed.  Very expensive fix.  Woulda done it myself but I was in Korea at the time so a $100 pump cost $1000ish to replace.

[CAP1]

delivered the honda yesterday. i think that it may have been pure cooincidence that these both failed around the same time.

the truck had 177k. before he was stationed here, he had been stationed at 1/2 dozen places around the country. seems just age on that one.

 the honda uses a returnless fuel system. the pressure regulator is mounted on the fuelpump module inside the fuel tank. upon removing that yesterday, i could see the little plastic clip that holds the regulator in place had cracked, allowing the regulator to shift just enough to displace the rubber o-ring, causing it to leak, thus dropping pressure. the honda runs on 40-47psi. this car had 39psi when started, and slowly dropped to 30psi. funny thins is that it felt fine while driving it.

 installed the new fuelpump module(BTW....if any of you in the field get one of these, they're cheaper from honda, and they're the entire module assembly, not just the pump.), and pressure came right back up to 45psi.

[DMBEAR]

Maybe it's good we dont have a state income tax so we can deal w/ problems like these on our own.

[CAP1]

Maybe it's good we dont have a state income tax so we can deal w/ problems like these on our own.

what's state income tax got to do with fuelpump problems?