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jkwilson
Jul 09, 2018Explorer II
May just be a coincidence, but electric fuel pumps seem to have become high failure items in my world. I have a farm with lots of equipment and am the designated mechanic for our test facility at work. I have had 4 fail on me in the last year, and another requires a love tap after it's been sitting a week or more.
I don't know if it is a fuel issue or the pumps are garbage, but it has left me frustrated.
Two of the failures happened in single digit temperatures, and one was on a tractor that had been running in sleet for 20 minutes and it quit just a few feet before it would have been indoors. Got covered with ice in the time it took me to duck tape a Mountain Dew bottle full of diesel to the frame to feed the main pump so I could run it inside.
I don't know if it is a fuel issue or the pumps are garbage, but it has left me frustrated.
Two of the failures happened in single digit temperatures, and one was on a tractor that had been running in sleet for 20 minutes and it quit just a few feet before it would have been indoors. Got covered with ice in the time it took me to duck tape a Mountain Dew bottle full of diesel to the frame to feed the main pump so I could run it inside.
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