so ....... Clara arrived at 7.45 this morning ...... Vicki says "
you know the CH pump you came and tweaked last year ? "

... "
could you call by after dropping Clara off and give it another one ..... pretty please " ..... keep telling 'em to just run the thing every couple of weeks when not in use
Dropped little 'un off at nursery at 9 and nipped up to the village ... sorted said pump with a quick flick of the driver in the armature hole and away it went. Cap back on the pump and headed home.
I'd just pulled round a friend out walking his dogs in the lane heading for Druid central, put me toe down to pull away and ...... nada .. dead stick


.... thought I'd stalled it - God knows how - but pulled in for a restart ... won't do it on the move .... and would it bloody start

so... walked the last two miles home after shoving the Golf, back into the hedge/verge as far as I could

... least it wasn't raining
Spoke to a mate as I walked back ... "
Fuel pump Gra ... known for it ... fine one second, dead the next ..... under the back seat squab is an access hole ... not too bad a job " ............ thank f**k it didn't die on Pam on the way home from Plymouth last week

She was surprised to look up from her weeding and see me stood beside her ....... "
get yer coat - we're going for a pull "
Shot back up in the Rangey, stuck a rope on it and dragged it back to me patch
Back seat squab took some extracting ... doubt it'd ever been out, but sure enough there was the access

note the unit locking ring ......

..... only evident after 5 min.s with me trusty hoover, clearing all the crap off the top of the tank ...... couldn't believe the amount of crud that'd collected !!


..... and didn't want any of it ending up inside it
what a
bar steward that was

....... hence the earlier posts .... no way José was it coming off/out, without either buying summat from VAG
if you could find one ...... or getting creative
even with my foot on top of it and a 10" adjustable on the leg ... it still had to be tapped loose ... and i mean TAPPED!!

it did surrender though

...
and the suspect ended up where most things do ..........
on me bench

..... an application of 12volts soon determined the lil' bar steward'd given up the un-ending struggle with gravity ... and'd quit being a team player
Lunch and an ebay sesh later and I have one coming ......... into me local factors in the a.m. at 08.00 ..... 108 quid


..... ebay was anything between 48 quid, but Tues/Wed.s (maybe?) and 178 quid .. same speed ...... so went for the local and OE unit ... sod it ... want it sorted


and it's VAG/OE ... or had better be ... was what I was told/sold for the bucks

Not been my month for fuel pumps, eh !!

on the plus side ......... I did have a nice 'score' with this Tuesday .....
pity it's missing its 'woodboss' badge, but came from a trusted friend who's had it
donkeys and only uses it for his wood burner these days.
he's bought summat smaller, lighter and easier to start (like auto recoil thingy) .... and I've had first dibs on this one for years ... new pot and piston 12 months ago, new chain last month and running like clockwork

..... a hundred quid sounded like a bargain to me


... so's not been
all s h 1 t this week

