Fuel Pump Failure

[eaglerox]

Are you telling me that I cant rely on a computerized dashboard? Hello! It's 2012 chips are everywhere. What kind of world would we live in if computer chips gave us inaccurate information and we were to rely in manual data entry.

[bronsin]

Originally Posted by eaglerox

Are you telling me that I cant rely on a computerized dashboard? Hello! It's 2012 chips are everywhere. What kind of world would we live in if computer chips gave us inaccurate information and we were to rely in manual data entry.

If you want take a 2 gallon gas can with you and when the fuel gets low again drive until you run out. See what the gauge says.

I doubt a fuel gauge would tell you you had gas when you didnt. But anything is possible.

But to answer your question NO you cannot trust the fuel gauge. Not with your life or in an emergency. As a private pilot no one trusts the fuel gauges. Before takeoff you are required to take the cap off the fuel tanks and look in there to make sure you has gas because if you dont and the engine quits on takeoff you probably die.

[seth_man]

i would have to say its your fault for not bringing it in to have the fuel sender repaired or replaced when you first had the problem, running the car very low or out of fuel is more than likely what caused the pump to fail, fuel pumps will heat up quickly when there is no fuel to cool them. running out of fuel a few times can generate enough heat to melt the small wire that the pump motor is made out of.

[07typeS]

Originally Posted by seth_man

i would have to say its your fault for not bringing it in to have the fuel sender repaired or replaced when you first had the problem, running the car very low or out of fuel is more than likely what caused the pump to fail, fuel pumps will heat up quickly when there is no fuel to cool them. running out of fuel a few times can generate enough heat to melt the small wire that the pump motor is made out of.

Unfortunately I agree.. Definitely your bad.. Whenever you have an issue, to cover your butt, always get it documented..

And I agree with Garm, why cant they just replace the sender and see if that fixes the problem?

[CTScott]

Originally Posted by 07typeS

Unfortunately I agree.. Definitely your bad.. Whenever you have an issue, to cover your butt, always get it documented..

And I agree with Garm, why cant they just replace the sender and see if that fixes the problem?

The labor to replace the sender and then later replace the pump probably isn't worth it to do two rounds. Also, they two items in question have completely different functions, so diagnosing whether both or just the sender are bad is pretty easy.