Author Topic: The saga continues.....  (Read 1499 times)

Offline VWnut

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The saga continues.....
« on: 06 June 2004, 13:45 »
A while back i posted on here complaining that my Mk1 1.8 gti cabrio's engine was hunting, badly. This afternoon i noticed that my fuel pump was making a very loud whining noise (louder than it should be). It has been doing this for a while now but today i noticed that when the fuel pump stesses the engine revs fluctuates (revs fluctuate between 300-900 rpm). I'm guessing that when the fuel pump is stressing this is causing a poor fuel delivery thus causing the fluctating idle. Is this the case as i believe the fuel pump should work continuosly regardless of engine speed therefore it must be the fuel pump causing the poor idle????
If anybody has any input to this i would be grateful as i'm about to buy a new fuel pump and don't want to waste my money.
Cheers
Tom

Offline G6dub

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Re:The saga continues.....
« Reply #1 on: 07 June 2004, 14:42 »
try replacing the pump in the fuel tank first, most of the time it is that that causes teh other pupm to be working so hard