mgs
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: Fuel pump shutoff oddity

To: "ccrobins" <ccrobins@ktc.com>
Subject: Re: Fuel pump shutoff oddity
From: "Mike Lishego" <mikesl@tartan.sapc.edu>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 19:30:21 -0500


>Hi Mike,
>
>  I'll make a WAG about it not stopping the pump when it's running.
>Here goes: If your car has an ignition relay or some such, the pump
gets
>power thru a circuit that parallels your switch after it starts.
>
>  Howzat?
>
>  CR

Good guess, but it ain't so...When the PO of my car replaced the
fuel pump, he also replaced the hot wire to the pump.  So, I have a
hot wire that runs inside the car from the fuse box.  I left it that
way for a few reasons.  I figured that somebody must have had a good
reason for replacing the wire in the first place.  Second, the wire
is of a high enough gauge and was a pretty good installation.  Not
only that, the wire is inside the car and out of the elements, which
also gives me a good place or two to hide a switch.  ;)  So, I can
state pretty securely that there is no special circuit giving me
power to the pump...

BTW, when I killed the switch with the car running, you could hear
the fuel pump stop it's clicking noises...

Thanks for the guess though...Would you like a Macanudo?  ;)

Michael S. Lishego
http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Speedway/3706/



<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>