Parts is parts
Awesome. Misty-kitty just found the reset switch on my power strip. Well, the computer was about due for a clean restart anyway, I guess.
Anyway, to add to the wonderfulness of my week, my Hyundai has learned a new habit: it stalls out sometimes when starting, requiring long wait periods (sometimes hours and hours) before it will again start; once in a while it’ll stall out on the highway, too, which is awfully fun at highway speeds during rush hour.
I managed to get it to the dealer yesterday, after much finagling. The dealer wants to put in a new fuel pump, for $550 – which right now I just cannot afford. So I did a little Internet research. The culprit is most likely not the pump, but the in-pump fuel filter. While one can’t replace said filter with five minutes and a Swiss Army knife, the step-by-step DIY I found is clear enough that anyone with basic intelligence, and an awareness of which end of a screwdriver points out, could do the work. The difference? The necessary part is only $30 or so. BUT – you can’t buy the part at your favorite local auto store. They will all just shrug and offer to sell you the complete pump, which adds another zero to the part’s price. The manufacturer just does not want you doing this yourself.
Well, I found an online source, and I expect the part to be here by Monday – only one more work day of praying that I make it to my job and back, then I should be good with about an hour’s work in the driveway. But it’s just one more source of aggravation. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to pick up some prescriptions for Starr and dinner fixins – the pharmacy’s closed by the time she leaves work. Cross your fingers that I get home!
I don’t know your particular pump but I can’t imagine you’ll have any difficulty. One word of caution though, DO NOT try to bench test the pump. Besides being a fire hazard, most of them use the gasoline as coolant/lubricant and if run without a fuel supply will, with great efficiency, convert themselves to rubbish.
I don’t know your particular pump but I can’t imagine you’ll have any difficulty. One word of caution though, DO NOT try to bench test the pump. Besides being a fire hazard, most of them use the gasoline as coolant/lubricant and if run without a fuel supply will, with great efficiency, convert themselves to rubbish.
I don’t know your particular pump but I can’t imagine you’ll have any difficulty. One word of caution though, DO NOT try to bench test the pump. Besides being a fire hazard, most of them use the gasoline as coolant/lubricant and if run without a fuel supply will, with great efficiency, convert themselves to rubbish.
I don’t know your particular pump but I can’t imagine you’ll have any difficulty. One word of caution though, DO NOT try to bench test the pump. Besides being a fire hazard, most of them use the gasoline as coolant/lubricant and if run without a fuel supply will, with great efficiency, convert themselves to rubbish.
I don’t know your particular pump but I can’t imagine you’ll have any difficulty. One word of caution though, DO NOT try to bench test the pump. Besides being a fire hazard, most of them use the gasoline as coolant/lubricant and if run without a fuel supply will, with great efficiency, convert themselves to rubbish.
I don’t know your particular pump but I can’t imagine you’ll have any difficulty. One word of caution though, DO NOT try to bench test the pump. Besides being a fire hazard, most of them use the gasoline as coolant/lubricant and if run without a fuel supply will, with great efficiency, convert themselves to rubbish.
I don’t know your particular pump but I can’t imagine you’ll have any difficulty. One word of caution though, DO NOT try to bench test the pump. Besides being a fire hazard, most of them use the gasoline as coolant/lubricant and if run without a fuel supply will, with great efficiency, convert themselves to rubbish.
I don’t know your particular pump but I can’t imagine you’ll have any difficulty. One word of caution though, DO NOT try to bench test the pump. Besides being a fire hazard, most of them use the gasoline as coolant/lubricant and if run without a fuel supply will, with great efficiency, convert themselves to rubbish.