Bannedjoe
Well-known member
I'd like to find the guy that came up with putting an electric motor in the tank along with the gasoline.
It used to take, what, a half hour at most to replace a fuel pump sitting conveniently on the side of an engine?
It wasn't even bad when they made it an electrical pump and mounted it to the frame.
So why did they did they have to put it in the tank???
The pump went out in my Grand Jeep Cherokee.
The tank has to come down.
Along with the tank coming down, the entire frame mounted hitch system will have to come with it, along with probably the lower rear plastic bumper section.
I have the skills, but not the proper shop nor physical abilities to do this job myself, so I must have it towed somewhere.
A simple $20 part of yesteryear and a half hours time, has now turned into an almost impossible $700 job.
And just fucking why couldn't the manufacturers put in an access door in the body above the tank so a person could get to the pump?
Yes, we all know why.
I recently saw a video (can't remember the car) where they're now putting the fuel pump inside the engine, down in the valley, under the fuel intake manifold.
It's shit like this that makes me hate the world we live in today.
It used to take, what, a half hour at most to replace a fuel pump sitting conveniently on the side of an engine?
It wasn't even bad when they made it an electrical pump and mounted it to the frame.
So why did they did they have to put it in the tank???
The pump went out in my Grand Jeep Cherokee.
The tank has to come down.
Along with the tank coming down, the entire frame mounted hitch system will have to come with it, along with probably the lower rear plastic bumper section.
I have the skills, but not the proper shop nor physical abilities to do this job myself, so I must have it towed somewhere.
A simple $20 part of yesteryear and a half hours time, has now turned into an almost impossible $700 job.
And just fucking why couldn't the manufacturers put in an access door in the body above the tank so a person could get to the pump?
Yes, we all know why.
I recently saw a video (can't remember the car) where they're now putting the fuel pump inside the engine, down in the valley, under the fuel intake manifold.
It's shit like this that makes me hate the world we live in today.