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fuel pump current draw? 200 1982

posted by  Laurence on  Mon Sep 13 15:00 CST 2004
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My brick quit the other day, traced it to a bad fuel pump relay. Tired resoldering with no success so popped in a new one and the car fired right up and drove off about 1/2 mile before it quit again.

The replay would click, I thought I heard the pump buzz, but nothing came out of the injectors. Played with fuses (at the fusebox) then checked out the pump and found some shakey wiring and connections. Cleaned it up a bit and the car started fine. That's the good news.

But as I was sitting at idle for a few minutes, the relay and attached wiring got hotter than I thought it should be. I've never felt them with the car running so don't know if this is normal. I put an ammeter across the main fuel pump and it was hovering around 10A.

Do I need to check something else? Or should I just stick an extra fire extinguisher in the front seat and continue driving?

I'm putting in a new fuel filter tonite. I figure it might be clogging up and making the pump work too hard.

Laurence
65-356C, 82-240, 84-Westy






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