Live Chat!
SVX or Subaru Links
Old Lockers
Photo Post
How-To Documents
Message Archive
SVX Shop Search
|
SVX Network Forums Live Chat! SVX or Subaru Links Old Lockers Photo Post How-To Documents Message Archive SVX Shop Search |
IRC users: |
|
#1
05-29-2007, 05:50 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Fuel Pump
97 LSI...pretty sure the fuel pump is going. This morning it bogged down SEVERELY going up a hill, and the Check Engine light started blinking at me. Then on the way home, it stalled out going sround a corner.
Not happy. Anyway - I can pick up a used pump for $60, shipping included. Unfortunately, I suspect the pump is inside the tank. 1) am I correct in my suspicion? 2) I have neighbors who are very mechanically savvy (one of them is going to run the code for me tomorrow), have power tools and ramps, and can be assuaged with beer. Is replacing the fuel pump something we can handle, if the answer to numer 1 is yes? 
|
|
#2
05-29-2007, 06:02 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Yeah, it's inside the tank. It can be accessed through a port on top. In the center of the trunk line is a metal plate with 3(?) screws. Remove that plate and you'll see the top of the tank and all the fittings.
Remember all the safety things... - Open all windows and doors and trunk to ventilate as best as you can. - Disconnect the battery - No smoking 
__________________
Dave - 03 Baja - 92 SVX - 86 Brat - 08 OB 3.0
|
|
#3
05-29-2007, 06:05 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Quote:
Wait...wait...this can be done without removing the tank?
|
|
#6
05-29-2007, 06:59 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
did you check the error code and it told you it is the fuel pump?
__________________
Michael Emery, MBA, MS 94 SVX LSI, Ebony Pearl profile 94 SVX LSI, Ebony Pearl from back Performance and Multi-Fuel Tuning
|
|
#7
05-29-2007, 07:12 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Just want to confirm the fuel pump/senders (they're all connected) CAN be removed through the port on the top under the backseat. I think there's one bolt that holds the whole assembly (2 pieces clipped together) on a hanger inside the tank. not really that difficult to remove/replace.
|
|
#8
05-29-2007, 07:17 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Please do not blow yourselves up!
Have the beer after, and THAT comes from ME!
__________________
www.svxfiles.com The first SuperCharged SVX,  the first 4.44 gears, the first equal length headers, the first phenolic spacers, the first Class Glass fiberglass hood, the first with 4, 4.44s in his driveway Fiberglass Hood thread My locker 4.44 Swap link
|
|
#10
05-29-2007, 08:44 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
I would make sure it's the fuel pump before you go and rip your possibly good one out. Your description makes me think of a knock sensor or MAF before the fuel pump. Besides, as I recall, the suction from the pump is at the back of the tank, so going up a hill would cause the fuel to go more toward the pump, not away from it.
__________________
-Jason (8/23/07-Present) 1995 Subaru SVX LSi (197k) Polo Green (#1102) 03/95 Mods: DDM Tuning 4500k 35w Low Beam HID, 100w H3 Bulbs, Extra Ground Cables, 15 minute $12.96 mod, svxfiles designed transmission mount ( ), sporting a "new" tail light bar, silver BBS rims, custom power steering cooler (one that doesn't dump ATF constantly), new negative lead cable, no more third or fourth gear (1977-Present) 1977 Chevrolet Corvette (81k) Silver (12/01/2011-Present) 2005 Subaru Outback 2.5i Limited 5MT (97k) I have a bad feeling about this. -Obi Wan Kenobi
|
|
#11
05-29-2007, 09:02 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Quote:
__________________
Dave - 03 Baja - 92 SVX - 86 Brat - 08 OB 3.0
|
|
#12
05-29-2007, 09:07 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
My $$$ on MAF...............
sounds like the MAF to me.......especially with the cel light intermitantly flashing.......Check your codes......mine went @ 240k but i had intermitant stall/loss of pwr symtems for months before it totaly gave out.....
__________________
92' Claret LSL 282,000 miles 1owner(ME) 07' Pearly WRX 40k Cobb Stage II (sold)  SVX+$$$+GreaseMonkey = 
|
 |
|
|
Linear Mode
