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baalamb20
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 Posted - 14 Feb 2007 : 4:44:42 PM
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Hey guys broke down last night was driving along and all of a sudden she just stalled on me, first i thought it was the battery because it make tick tick when i tried to start it, but any thismorning an old friend told me it was the petrol pump because when i started it no fuel was coming through the lines, so anyway went to Holden and got a pump for $80 and my friend put it in, he had trouble putting it in and lost the filter in the tank so he had to use the old one, it's seems to be going fine altho there is no Buzz sound anymore but there is so much more power and when I turn corners my petrol need goes all the way past full, is this normal???? also i am at 158,000k now is there anything more I have to look forward to?
thanks,
sean
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mouce
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Posted - 14 Feb 2007 : 10:10:14 PM
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Well...I hope for your sake you changed the fuel filter while you were doing it.
There shouldn't be a buzz with the new pump, it was one of the indications that the old pump was on the way out. The louder they get the closer to dead they are. I can hear mine without the engine running, but once it turns over I can't hear a thing.
The reason that the fuel gauge will be going way too high is because the sender will have either been damaged or misaligned. The only way to fix that is to pull the fuel pump out again and adjust/repair the sender as required.
Since your VN is only just run in (let's face it, 160,000km is really low K's to have on one), you can also look forward to one or more of the following:
* Crank Angle Sensor (the first sign is that when the engine is hot it will stall)
* Coil packs (VN motors don't like running on 4 cylinders, they can do it, but it's not pretty), same can be said for the DFI module
* Rear main seal (if it's a S1 motor, you're just as screwed as I am, you have to take the engine out to do it properly)
* Fuel pump (yeah, I know, but VN's go through fuel pumps almost as quick as brake pads)
* Rear diff (if it's the LSD, keep a close eye on it, the holden factory LSD wasn't the best, it gets a bit loose really quickly)
All that said, it's all fairly straighforward when you consider that some of them are now past 18 years of age. They do fairly well all said and done.
That, and a good toolkit and a nice place to work means you can get it back on the road fairly quickly. |
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