fuel pumps and speed bumps don't mix.

[Sleeeper X]

So i'm driving home from a local meet in long island and I decide to stop off at a friends place, have a couple stoggies..... just shoot the breeze. I get back to the car drive it all of 4 blocks and as I'm stopping for a stop sign and the car just dies.... mind you its 1:30 and my phones half dead. My fuel pump is a brand new defective walbro..... its been installed for all of 6 days and its stranded me 5 times.......why am i driving the car...... well, 1, i'm not to bright, 2 i'm not to smart and 3.... well i'm stupid. So its always been a somewhat easy fix, pull the fuel pump and hit it and it'll usually turn over but no.... not this time 30 mins of f***ing with it lead to nowhere. I call my friend back, he comes and the party begins..... 1.2 miles of speed bumps, hills, and hell. So were pushing and 3 cops drive by I get it 3/4's of the way and the cars stopped. were catching our breath, and a cop stares me down, rolls down his window and says why is your car in the middle of the street, I say the fuel pump died, and yeah its the same car you saw about an hour ago.... he looks at me and says...."good luck with that" and speeds off. we keep pushing, now... the block infront of my house has 2 big speed bumps, and my driveway to the 1 car garage is all uphill..... Needless to say, my knees are shot, my back is screwed and I'm taking a greyhound to PA to kill the SOB who refuses to refund my money for his "brand new" walbro because quote " I've sold over nine thousand fuel pumps and none have been defective, unless you have some proof I refuse to do any exhange or refund"

rant over....

PS, does anyone want to buy a 6 day old walbro, I'll sell it to ya cheap.

[Boris]

Time for a bosch 044! walbro is too whiny anyways

[Sleeeper X]

Time for a bosch 044! walbro is too whiny anyways

i wish, i guess my baby is going to be sleeping early for the winter.

[gaspeedracer]

its shitty the cop didnt offer any help or anything. maybe its just the northern cops that act like assholes

[Daft]

its shitty the cop didnt offer any help or anything. maybe its just the northern cops that act like assholes

Yep, that's the NY cop attitude.

I recall breaking down in one of my DSM cars and I pulled to the side of the road in a small town.

Two state troopers roll up and ask me what's going on. I told them my car was broken down. They informed me that I needed to push the car off the roadside into a parking lot immediately. They told me to be gone before they came back. Then they drove off like the devil.

Bear in mind, I only had to push it 200 feet to the nearest opening in the curb to enter a parking lot. These guys were just tools.

[BastardS4]

yeah my walboro died too. fuel starved at high load. Could have blown my motor.

[gaspeedracer]

Yep, that's the NY cop attitude.

I recall breaking down in one of my DSM cars and I pulled to the side of the road in a small town.

Two state troopers roll up and ask me what's going on. I told them my car was broken down. They informed me that I needed to push the car off the roadside into a parking lot immediately. They told me to be gone before they came back. Then they drove off like the devil.

Bear in mind, I only had to push it 200 feet to the nearest opening in the curb to enter a parking lot. These guys were just tools.

wow. if there is someone pushing a broken down car here in the south east half of the state's police force would be involved. choppers and everything

[AudiTechS4]

along these lines. would it be ok to run an inline pump to help the stock pump on a stage 3 or is it not necessary.

its a msd 2225 inline pump
http://www.statracing.com/buy/msd-fuelpump.asp

[XSilverJ]

Not sure how many of you have actually tried to push our cars.. yeah, not fun at all. I had a wire come off my fuel pump. Luckily I just got back from FL with the car and was about 3 blocks from my house (Part way up hill).

[Das General]

I've pushed a b6 a4 to get a running start, due to a bad battery. It wasn't that bad.

You girls need to go to the gym! I wouldn't drive around with a FP that I know will fail. That is just asking for your engine to die.

[Grenade]

Wow, I've never seen one car group have so many problems with a Walbro. I've had 4, and not once have they let me down. Bummer

I'de just get an inline High HP pump, and leave the stocker.

[Das General]

My walbro worked great.

[Reich]

My first walbro only last 2.5days. I've put a direct fit nissan filter on the bottom of new one. Was an ass to put it back in tank. Hope this one will last. Runs fine since a while now.

[Sleeeper X]

I've pushed a b6 a4 to get a running start, due to a bad battery. It wasn't that bad.

You girls need to go to the gym! I wouldn't drive around with a FP that I know will fail. That is just asking for your engine to die.

Hey, Hey, Hey..... I resent that. If you had to push a car for a mile..... I think you'd be soar.

[Das General]

ahah Tommy I kid, I kid.

But seriouslyyyy..did I miss the part in the story where all of the tow-trucks were broken during this event?

[hyperlight944]

tow trucks cost money pushing is free hehehe
sorry about the fuel pump
cheers

--daniel

[DoGGRoBBer]

I've pushed a b6 a4 to get a running start, due to a bad battery. It wasn't that bad.

You girls need to go to the gym! I wouldn't drive around with a FP that I know will fail. That is just asking for your engine to die.

Hey wait!!! Wasn't that surfers forever Silver A4 at Waterfest???? How is the Bastard doing any who???

-Mike

[Sleeeper X]

ahah Tommy I kid, I kid.

But seriouslyyyy..did I miss the part in the story where all of the tow-trucks were broken during this event?

no, no... I do have AAA and i do have 4 free tows because my dad was a member for over 10 years but....... I used one tow on a friends a4 to get him home from Etown. He broke an axle. Another tow on another friend to get his S4 back from the bronx....another axle and the other one to get my car to the shop when my passanger turbo popped. It was the strangest thing, no turbo noise whatsoever. I always cooled off my car then BAM the blew funny thing is, I was in the car with a friend telling him how I plan on buying a set of used tracksports and some swaybars. I guess my car had other plans....

But back to the original statement.... I didnt want to pay 50/100 bucks to get my car towed to my house that was a mile away. Do i regret it. No. Does my lower back and body, Yes. I had a friend wake my ass up at 9am after my 4 and a half hour beauty sleep.

[Das General]

Hey wait!!! Wasn't that surfers forever Silver A4 at Waterfest???? How is the Bastard doing any who???

-Mike

I haven't talked to Spencer in a while. I assume he is doing alright. I don't remember bumping into him at Waterfest Last time I heard his car was at KMD getting built.

[AudiA4_20T]

Hey wait!!! Wasn't that surfers forever Silver A4 at Waterfest???? How is the Bastard doing any who???

-Mike

nope it was my POS lol

[SpoolPastYou]

every cop in the northeast is a piece of shit to put it lightly...well 99% of them

[Jung]

wow what gay cops.. I always thoguht it was bad having to fred flinstone my car out of garages or parking spaces since I couldn't engage reverse for the longest time. but i never ad to push it a mile or more