Club G40 Forum
Technical => Electrical => Topic started by: PeteG40 on June 27, 2009, 05:42:59 pm
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right, fuel pump started to whines like an RC car, so got a second hand one off dan barnes and swapped it. I also cleaned the filter on the intank pump.
It still whines!!!
what do people reckon it is??? fuel filter need changing?
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A safe bet Pete, but what sort of mileage on it? My first filter change was at 165k on my old G.
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what about the lift pump? If that's worn out maybe the inline one is struggling
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i changed the inline one and it didn't fix anything, turned out to be the lift pump as hayesey said
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fuel filter has been replaced and looks quite new. I shall investigate the lift pump. It only does it on occasions, but embarrassing at the very least at traffic lights!
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right, changed lift pump and it still whines.
I'll change the filter tomorrow... but other than than, what can it be??? would a dodgy FPR cause the pump to overwork? it does seem to get warm when whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrring and whining
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Any chance of a kink or crimp in the fuel line while doing other work? Return pipe blockage?
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i'll check connections in the engine bay... its weird as its only really bad stood/at idle.
1. Pipes in engine bay
2. fuel pressure reg
3. fuel filter
hopefully get to the bottom of it!
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At it's worst with least demand; starts to sound like the regulator.
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i've got a few regs about... will check pipes and reg tonight..
fingers crossed will get to the bottom of this.
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pipes seem ok, regulator changed... now seems to behave... but not had a good test. Will test and report back.
pete
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Interesting that regs do that. Not heard it happen before, but would make sense.
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only thing i can think is that the reg wasn't letting it return to the tank and therefore backing up and straining the pump