<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">I think in an urban context like in San Francisco, when I was driving across the Bay Bridge all the time, I couldn't afford to have the pump crap out on me. I had one friend it happened to, and his BJ8 was totalled when he came to a stop on the upper deck with a faulty SU pump (he didn't know he should carry a mallot in the car to whack the back panel with!).<div><br></div><div>I replaced my SU, which was very temperamental, with a facet bendix style pump which was more reliable, cheap and quiet. As I got older, the electronic SUs became available and I switched back. I think the main thing was the contacts were really fiddly, and if driving all the time... at some point would fail.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Alan</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 11:20 PM warthodson--- via Healeys <<a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net">healeys@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div style="color:black;font:10pt arial">Why do so many people replace an original SU pump that has lasted decades with an aftermarket pump that requires modifying the fuel lines, adding additional fittings, clamps & altering the mounting brackets (all additional sources of failures), vibrates continuously, etc, when it would be so much easier & more original to simply replace it with a new highly reliable SU fuel pump? If you are concerned about being stranded at the side of the road, carry a spare SU or even better install it in parallel & wire up a selector switch so you can switch between the two pumps.
<div>Gary Hodson <br>
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