kevenb@tekid.UUCP (05/28/83)
Relay-Version:version B 2.10 5/3/83; site mhuxt.UUCP Message-ID:<1237@tekid.UUCP> Date:Fri, 27-May-83 19:52:54 EDT For those of you who did not get a recall notice, or else ignored the notice the fuel pump recall is an important one. Basically, the wiring for the fuel pump relay is not heavy enough to handle the fuel pump current for long periods of time. The fix is a simple jumper which bypasses the fuse box, and puts a separate fuse/harness for the fuel pump relay. The symptoms are: bad fuel pressure, unreliable starting etc. When the connection is completely bad, there are two possible problems. Your car will no longer start, and will need to be towed at the least convienent time (either during a "hot date" or at the furthest distance from a pay phone.) And if you are really unlucky, your fuse box will catch on fire while you are driving on the freeway. My car chose both of the above problems, the fuse box started to burn up while on a "hot date" K.B. tektronix!tekid!kevenb
donch@teklabs.UUCP (06/03/83)
Last Monday, when driving on Van Ness in San Francisco, I drove past a VW Rabbit in the middle of an intersection where it had come to a stop and proceeded to billow smoke and flames froml under the hood. There was a p ool of flames under the engine on the pavement. As I drove by giving it a wide berth, I fully expected it to explode into massive flames (which it did not). It makes me wonder....... :wq wq A