Check your fuel filters and make sure the fuel line is not obstructed. In my experience, a fuel pump either works or doesn't; when it's croaking it makes a couple of death rattles and goes out almost immediately. The pump should go on when you give it juice, then engine does not need to be started first - how would that work, other than fumes? Charlie LA, CA, USA 84 GTV 6 91 Spider > just added Hyundai Sonata parent-hauler lamented: 71 Spider, 87 75 (Milano) Gold, 94 164LS In a message dated 6/30/2010 10:46:49 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
alfa-digest Wednesday, June 30 2010 Volume 10 : Number 2294 Forum for Discussion of Alfa Romeos, etc. Richard Welty <[email protected]> Digest Coordinator Contents: [alfa] timing belt Re: [alfa] timing belt [alfa] Strange GTV6 Fuel Pump Problem Alfa Digest Home Page: http://www.digest.net/alfa/ Send submissions to [email protected] Send administrative requests to [email protected] To unsubscribe, include the word unsubscribe by itself in the body of the message, unless you are sending the request from a different address than the one that appears on the list. Include the word help in a message to alfa-digest-request to get a list of other majordomo commands. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:22:21 -0500 From: "Ben Ament" <[email protected]> Subject: [alfa] timing belt Question about brand and quality vis a vis, timing belts. I just opened a box delivered by UPS from one of the usual suppliers and found an unfamiliar brand: Flennor Automotive Germany. Anyone have any experience with this brand of timing belt? I am reluctant to install it - am I being unnecessarily wary? Peace, Ben ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:42:02 -0700 (PDT) From: ira kaufman <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [alfa] timing belt i've heard of them here in israel.from there website they say they've been in bussiness 70 yr's.that would put them at the end of the reconstruction period in the fifties. http://www.walther-flender.de/unternehmensgruppe.0.html?&L=1 - --- On Mon, 6/28/10, Ben Ament <[email protected]> wrote: From: Ben Ament <[email protected]> Subject: [alfa] timing belt To: [email protected] Date: Monday, June 28, 2010, 4:22 PM Question about brand and quality vis a vis, timing belts. I just opened a box delivered by UPS from one of the usual suppliers and found an unfamiliar brand: Flennor Automotive Germany. Anyone have any experience with this brand of timing belt? I am reluctant to install it - am I being unnecessarily wary? Peace, Ben - -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:30:27 -0700 From: Leonard Harpster <[email protected]> Subject: [alfa] Strange GTV6 Fuel Pump Problem The issue with the fuel pump is that it turns on as soon as the battery is connected, but when the engine is started it dies from what appears to be lack of fuel. The fuel pump is loud, sounds terrible, and seems to be independent of whether the car is started or the engine is loaded. I'm assuming the fuel pump is toast because even though it seems like it's going full blast, the engine is being starved. The strange thing about this is that the pump turns on when the battery is connected; before the key is even in the ignition. This is my first post on the digest, is there anything I left out? - --- Len Harpster '81 GTV6 ------------------------------ End of alfa-digest V10 #2294 **************************** -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
