[alfa] Fuel pump reliability

["Ed & Marsha Prytherch" <mred2u@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

George Graves wrote
>But the British cars have soul
and character, and while different from Italian cars, are every bit as
much fun - if you don't mind laying on your back by the side of the
road occasionally with the knock-off hammer banging the hell out of a
stuck S.U. fuel pump!<

I agree with the Italian/British car sentiment (and I'm an expat Brit) but
if you had been driving along I20 near Columbia SC at 4:15 this afternoon
you would have seen my feet sticking out from under my spider as I tried to
figure out why I was getting no gas to the Webers. I wasn't banging the hell
out of the fuel pump but I was finding out that the pressure had dropped to
next to nothing. I think that it was a fuse connection, but this is not the
first time that it has failed and it is always on hot afternoons when I have
driven about 20 miles. The pump is a Facet.

Ed Prytherch, Columbia SC
79 Spider
73 GTV
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