b Colin, Your fuel pump is working only because the engine started. Normally the Low Fuel pressure light is on until the fuel pump brings the fuel pressure to working pressure. Most of the time you never notice it is on at all.
SPICA systems do not have an auxiliary pump in the tank; the Bosch FI started the in-tank aux. pump design. I'll suspect that if you turn the key to ON, the pump is working but it just isn't as noisy as before since it isn't passing the usual volume of gasoline. Much of the noise is the gasoline traveling thru all the tubing. My '73 GTV has two fuel filters; 1) right by the gas tank by the pump, 2) under the hood on the passengers fender. The tank filter gets the big stuff such as flakes of rust from the tank - my tank would clog a new filter in 3 days until I got it Renu'd (http://gastankrenu.com). The engine compartment filter will catch the small stuff. IAP sells the engine compartment filter ( http://www.international-auto.com/index.cfm?fa=p&pid=2491&posid=855603). It still could be that your pump is marginal. BTW, did you test the voltage at the pump ?? Bruce b > > Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 00:19:52 +0000 (UTC) > From: Colin Talcroft <[email protected]> > Subject: [alfa] 1978 Spider fuel pump issue continued > > Just to bring this up to date: > The car has started since the initial failure. What I get now is the low > fuel > pressure indicator light (or at least I get the upper left hand red light) > continuously on (which I've never seen before) and there is NO fuel pump > sound > at all.B > I was, however, able to pull it out of the driveway and get it into the > garage. I don't want to drive it any distance like that, of course, but it > does in fact go. > Is this consistent with a failed fuel pump? Or something else? Does the > supplementary pump in the gas tank provide just enough fuel to allow it to > go? -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
