Well, how would rapping the pump body with a hammer (or driving across a
rumble strip, etc.) clear up a bad ground? I can see how it "unsticks" the
points...
A pump that failed to respond to rapping might very well have a ground
problem, sure... (or it might just have good musical taste <g>).
--
Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires
on 12/14/10 12:45 PM, Stephen West-Fisher at steve@coastaldatasystems.com
wrote:
> OK, so how do you diagnose stuck points as opposed to a bad ground while
> underway :-)
> I've seen a number of MGs that had just recently had the fuel pump replaced
> due to intermittent problems where the problem reappeared very shortly. Just
> say'n.
>
> --
> Stephen West-Fisher
> Coastal Data Systems
> 727.831.1142
> http://www.coastaldatasystems.com/
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mgs-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:mgs-bounces@autox.team.net] On
> Behalf Of Max Heim
> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 3:03 PM
> To: MG List
> Subject: Re: [Mgs] Market opportunity
>
> Hmm, I think the problem we have been discussing is generally acknowledged
> as intermittent failure to actuate due to the points sticking.
>
>
> --
>
> Max Heim
> '66 MGB GHN3L76149
> If you're near Mountain View, CA,
> it's the primer red one with chrome wires
>
>
>
> on 12/14/10 11:46 AM, Stephen West-Fisher at steve@coastaldatasystems.com
> wrote:
>
>> My experience with unreliable fuel pumps is actually due to a bad ground.
>> Note that the ground is also shared by several rear lamps, really bizarre
>> symptoms can occur when the ground goes "hot" due to the bad connection.
>>
>> --
>> Stephen West-Fisher
>> Coastal Data Systems
>> 727.831.1142
>> http://www.coastaldatasystems.com/
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mgs-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:mgs-bounces@autox.team.net] On
>> Behalf Of Max Heim
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 2:24 PM
>> To: MG List
>> Subject: Re: [Mgs] Market opportunity
>>
>> Very ingenious.
>>
>> But what I think is funny is that my somewhat facetious suggestion has
>> generated a long thread of real-world "solutions".
>>
>> It would seem that the real marketing opportunity would be for someone to
>> provide a standard configuration fuel pump that operated reliably.
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