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Words of experience. 200

posted by  Maxspeed on  Thu Sep 28 18:34 CST 2006
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I got a call from my daughter telling me that her car (89 244) died just driving down the road. Found out she had just gone over a railroad track before it quit. hmmm, ok so I go get the car, drive it towards the shop and on the way it quits..Pull over at a store, put it in park and started it up. Drove all the way back with no incident. Spent a day going over it. Let it run over several hours and no repeat of it dying. Take it out on the road and within a few minutes it dies. Pull over and it starts and drives back again with no incident. Checked everything..And I mean everthing. From the rear to the front. Found it by accident. The prepump was running until a jolt of the vehicle made it stop. Just by attempting to start the car it made enough of a bump to get the pump to run again. After pulling the prepump I discovered that you could tap it and it would quit or if it was not running you could tap it and it start running. Replaced it and solved the problem.
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Max..1989 244 DL 5 Spd., V15 Phase II Cam Bilstein HD, Turbo Swaybars, Poly Bushings all round, Turbo Wheels, Black leather interior, Electric mirrors, LED dash and gauge lights and now NEW ECODES with the turn signals, 1992 black 244 next project








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    Words of experience. 200

    posted by  someone claiming to be jdouglas on  Fri Sep 29 02:22 CST 2006 [RELATED]

    Yes exactly. That is the typical behavior of worn brushes. That's why I get a kick out of reading so many posts saying I checked the tank pump and it was fine. Sure. Whatever.

    To be more helpful, as I was rightly criticized for being merely critical, a good approach to checking the tank pump for "fineness" is to spend about five minutes with a jumper wire on the fuse block, enabling it dozens of times and listening for the pump to start each and every time. Tell Charlie to close the bay door and stop rapping on that stuck rotor so you can hear it.







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