Yes, exactly.
IIRC, I bought the pump about 2 years ago. It stopped working after some
period, which is when I took it apart and cleaned the contacts. Later, I
disassembled it again and I actually realigned some of the contacts with a
needlenose pliers. It was reliable for a 9 months to a year, but it's been
intermittently crapping out now for about 6 weeks, and it's been too wet for
me to feel like crawling under there and mucking about.
--
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 4:14 PM, Barney Gaylord at barneymg@mgaguru.com wrote:
> Max, -- Did your then new fuel pump points look like this:
> http://mgaguru.com/mgtech/faulty/ft037.htm
>
> Can you say when that pump was purchased?
>
> It is approaching three years since I reported this problem with new
> SU fuel pumps manufactured by Burlen. I got one intermediate
> response some months later from a reseller indicating that Burlen was
> ignoring the issue. It is possible that this problem is related to a
> dingle production run, but mot necessarily. In the absense of any
> positive response to fixing this problem, I can only recommend
> avoiding purchase of any Burlen products. My friend who had the
> problams with this one got his money back and bought a good
> aftermarker fuel pump.
>
>
> At 03:31 PM 12/14/2010 -0800, Max Heim wrote:
>> It's true that my original pump did not give me serious trouble
>> until about 200,000 miles ....
>>
>> The replacement started giving trouble within 5000 miles. Examination shows
>> that the point mechanism is built much less precisely -- as assembled, the
>> moving arm was cocked and did not contact cleanly.
>> ....
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