Carter Electronic Fuel Pump

This pump fit perfect and is performing well. The staff at the Wawa Canadian special ordered the pump for me and I was up and running in 2 days. The service was excellent v

Clean easy fast fit.

It's been 3 months and 2,000 kms since the repair/ replacement, and car runs fine, but it turns-out that I may not have needed to replace the fuel pump after all. This was not a job I wanted to do myself, but ended-up doing myself, learning some lessons along the way. Total time of repair: 40+ hours, spread over 2 months Tools I didn't have, but really wish I had: power probe table vise suitable for handling tubing Tools I had, that made the job easier: cordless oscillating multi-tool with carbide blade cordless rotary tool with metal cut-off wheel cordless impact wrench and 1/2" impact socket set hydraulic flaring tool friend's car flare nut wrench set 5/16" and 3/8" tube straighteners 5/16" and 3/8" tube benders Essential tools and supplies: Haynes Manual class B fire extinguisher safety glasses nitrile gloves jack and jack stands screwdriver set wrench set 1/2" socket set and breaker bar 1/4" and 3/8" socket set fuel siphon fuel can snap ring pliers 5/16" and 3/8" copper nickel brake line substituted for steel fuel line fuel filter tube cutter Replaced this fuel pump because I thought that an intermittent short was being caused by the fuel pump. For several years, the fuel gauge on the dash was not working. Also, the fuel filter had not been changed for several years due to rusted fuel lines, and the shop not wanting to touch it. Then one day, driving into a parking lot, the car just died. Tried boosting the car. No joy. Spark plugs and ignition wires were a few months new, as were the alternator and starter. It then occurred to me to check the fuse for the fuel pump, and yup, it was blown, so replaced the 15A fuse, and the car was good to go. Bought this fuel pump anyways to keep in the trunk, just in case. A month or so later, the fuel pump fuse started to blow intermittently. Tried to recreate the short by moving around some wire harnesses in the engine, and the wires at the connector leading to the fuel pump, while the engine was running. No joy. Google and YouTube searching turned-up that a likely fix would be to replace the fuel pump, so resolved to do this job myself. Almost everything that could go wrong, did go wrong. Ended-up replacing the fuel filter, the main 3/8" fuel line, the fuel pump, 1 fuel tank strap and bolt, a portion of 5/16" fuel return line, the fuel pressure regulator on the fuel rail, and the fuel injectors (with used ones from the U-Pull yard). Took another look at the wiring diagrams from Haynes manual, and realized that the fuel injectors and fuel pump share the same fuse. Measured resistance of fuel pump relay to be 60-100 ohms, same as the relay for A/C. Measured resistance of all 4 fuel injectors to be 20-50 ohms. Current draw of new pump was a steady 3.5A. Finally, finally bit the bullet, and as per 1-month old suggestion of friend, ran new 14 gauge primary wire to fuel injectors and fuel pump. No more blown fuses. I took a chance and kept the existing wiring to the ECM and from the relay to the fuse, and confirmed that the existing 15A fuse was still part of the circuit by test cranking the engine with the fuse removed. Have to admit, I was a bit nervous cutting the fuel injector wires and the brand spanking new fuel pump power wire. PTSD like jitters for a few weeks afterwards, sensitive to anything that sounded like the pop of a blown fuse. Must have gone through almost 100 15A fuses in total. A small fortune in fuses alone. Never thought I'd be a Parts Changer, but there it is. Normally, I like to reward myself after a job well done, by buying some more tools, but this was a job not well done. And this time, I had already pre-spent a small fortune on tools and parts to do jobs that needn't have been done. Parts cannon meet parts changer meet tool monger. First from having blinders on when diagnosing the problem, and then lack of skill and tools in diagnosing an intermittent short. I now have my eye on some circuit tracer or power probe diagnostic tools. If I had to do this over, I would probably pay the shop for 1-2 hours of diagnostics time.

We replaced the old fuel pump and it didn’t work. Couldn’t return it as it was used on the vehicle.

So far, so good. I had installed 22 days ago, and no problems. Very quiet pump, and my gas milage seems to be better.