On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:38:12 -0500, wrote:

Well, both of my old fuel injected Chryslers went over 240,000km on
the original pump. My 1995 TransSport went over 300,000. My friend's
Honda went over 700,000, and so did my neighbour's GMC pickup.
Personally - and in my immediate family, I have NEVER had an electric
fuel pump fail. The Pontiac used to draw air and stup if I hit
washboard road below 1/4 tank - but that's all.



You either have good luck or you got better pumps. A local mechanic
said 60% of his business is replacing in-tank pumps. My 91 GMC truck
developed a leak in the lines on top of the pump outside of tank. I
replaced that with a used part, but the same pump. Couple weeks later
that pump died, I put in a new one. That lasted a couple months and
died. That's when I sawed a hole in the box because I refused to drop
the tank again. I got a used pump from the junkyard, put it in, and
sold the truck. Main reason I sold it was the pump issues.

A friend has a small Chevy pickup, he's been thru 3 pumps in 2 years.
The first replacement only lasted 2 months. Seems the ones sold at the
parts stores are all crap. I will say that the guy always runs his
truck on almost empty. Puts in 3 gallons at a time, so that may be part
of his problem. But either way, it seems all I hear locally is fuel
pump failures.

I had an 86 Olds compact car which is the one that stranded me on that
very cold night cuz of the pump. The car had other problems too, so
after the pump went, I junked the car.

I like my old carbureted Chevy Caprice with mech fuel pump. It just
keeps going and going with no engine problems. Biggest problems on that
car have been worn front end parts and the brakes seem to have a rather
short lifespan, but I'll live with that.

My next truck is going to have a carb, no matter how old it is.