Automotive Engineers Everywhere…
by Chris on Jun.13, 2010, under Rant
…I have the opportunity of changing the fuel pump on my car. Upon examination of the situation, I have concluded that this is another design that you all need to be punched in the dick for.
For those that do not know, cars that have been manufactured in at least the last 20 years have an electric fuel pump. This means it can be put anywhere that you can run wires to. For sheer awesomeness, the far majority of these are mounted inside your fuel tank. Why? Because they utilize the fuel to keep them cool. So then why is it mounted on the fucking top of the tank and not the bottom where it’s easy to reach? What? there is a greater chance it will leak? Better put it on top then. Good thing since there is no space and it’s right against the floor pan that we put an access panel to get to it. What? There is no fucking access panel? What am I supposed to do now? Oh, just remove the entire fucking fuel tank. That shouldn’t be too bad…Well that’s odd, there seems to be a lot of other shit in the way. What’s that? I have to cut out the welded exhaust, remove the panard bar, sway bar, torque bars and then the whole fucking rear axle so that I can now reach the fuel tank to remove that bastard too? So you’re saying you didn’t put a little door in my trunk to reach it from the top…
PUNCHED. IN. THE. DICK.
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June 16th, 2010 on 19:18
I can’t think of a car that you don’t have to drop the tank to get at the fuel pump.
June 17th, 2010 on 02:17
Almost every japanese/korean/asian car has an access panel and I believe isuzus are mounted outside the tank. Then obviously all the old cars where it is on the side of the engine.