Corroded/mucky fuel pump terminals
Discussion
My Chimaera apparently failed to start this morning while it was away having some work done and the culprit turned out to be the exposed spade connectors for the fuel pump which were, to quote, 'full of green gunge'.
Now cleaned up, the car has started fine and is said to be running well (I pick it up this evening...) but it did get me wondering if a poor connection there could have affected the rate of fuel flow even before it conked out. There were no obvious signs - no hesitance to start or rough running - but maybe it's been under the weather for a while?
I'm told it's quite common to re-locate the fuel pump for precisely this problem?
Now cleaned up, the car has started fine and is said to be running well (I pick it up this evening...) but it did get me wondering if a poor connection there could have affected the rate of fuel flow even before it conked out. There were no obvious signs - no hesitance to start or rough running - but maybe it's been under the weather for a while?
I'm told it's quite common to re-locate the fuel pump for precisely this problem?
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