Netters, I have had one semi-failure of a facet fuel pump in my baja bug. A small piece of foam from the fuel cell came through the line and stopped the pump from working. I had to remove the fuel cell to get to the pump, dismantle, and clean out the debris. I later bought a fuel filter to go between the fuel cell and the punp. I would urge anyone using this pump to do the same.
Dave Mullins Nashua, New Hampshire Mark Langford wrote: >Dan wrote: > > > >>I turned my Facet on when I started the engine and turned it off when I >>turned the engine off. If anyone needs to know the number of hours, I >> >> >would > > >>guess, around 150. As far as I know, it is still performing the same. >> >> > >OK, I can top that one. I've had a Facet pump in my Karmann Ghia since >1978, and it runs any time the ignition switch is turned on. I've put about >160,000 miles on it since then. My wife's trip computer on her Audi informs >me that we typically drive about 40 miles an hour on average, so I have >somewhere around 4000 hours on my Facet, and never a hiccup. I would think >that the failure mode on these would be that they might stick after sitting >a while, so if it starts, it'll get you there. But then mine sits for >months now, and it always fires right up. If there was a big problem with >these things overheating for any reason, the company would have fixed them >years ago, or gone out of business by now. And these days, you have to >design hardware for the folks who don't even read instructions, and there's >no telling what they'll try to do with it, so it's prudent to make it >bulletproof with a built-in bypass or some other means of self-defense. An >excellent piece of equipment... > >Mark Langford, Huntsville, AL >N56ML at hiwaay.net >see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford > > >_______________________________________ >to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net >please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > > >
