# Anyone having fuel pump failures? **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Automotive\ **Created:** [June 18, 2009, 7:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-having-fuel-pump-failures/69340 "2009-06-18T07:52:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Southtowns27](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/southtowns27/32/5002_2.png) [@Southtowns27](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Southtowns27)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 7:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-having-fuel-pump-failures/69340/1 "2009-06-18T07:52:00Z")
I’ve had 2 in the last 2 weeks…wtf. Both mechanical pumps. The first was on the FE 360 in my '70 F-350. I started the truck and was just about to move out of the driveway when it quit. The pump just plain died. Then just this past Tuesday, we left the supercruise at the fair with the '50 Dodge truck. We made it around the corner toward McKinley and that was all she wrote. Fuel pump on the old flathead failboated. It was after midnight by the time we were done fucking around with getting the trailer and loading/unloading/etc. In all my past experience I’ve NEVER had a mechanical fuel pump just stop working. Usually the diaphragm leaks fuel into the crankcase or you’ll have a high rpm fuel starvation issue. Wtf. I’m wondering if it has something to do with the gas we’re getting. Anyone else having issues? ---
**Author:** ![fiend540](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bcef8e/32.png) [@fiend540](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fiend540)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 7:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-having-fuel-pump-failures/69340/2 "2009-06-18T07:57:07Z")
I didn’t have a fuel pump failure but my girlfriends saturn has the FPR built into the fuel filter and that gave up the ghost only 2 months after changing it. Only gm puts a FPR into a fucking filter, 60 bucks later and the car is running fine. ---
**Author:** ![nitroinsane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d26b3c/32.png) [@nitroinsane](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/nitroinsane)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 8:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-having-fuel-pump-failures/69340/3 "2009-06-18T08:00:06Z")
the fpr on saturns go bad all the time. ---
**Author:** ![newman](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/newman/32/7569_2.png) [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 8:14am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-having-fuel-pump-failures/69340/4 "2009-06-18T08:14:10Z")
Can you disassemble it to see the cause of failure? ---
**Author:** ![Southtowns27](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/southtowns27/32/5002_2.png) [@Southtowns27](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Southtowns27)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 8:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-having-fuel-pump-failures/69340/5 "2009-06-18T08:34:56Z")
The checkvalve on both of them seized. Maybe it’s time to start running marvel mystery oil in the fuel ---
**Author:** ![97FormulaWS-6](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/97formulaws-6/32/7384_2.png) [@97FormulaWS-6](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/97FormulaWS-6)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 8:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-having-fuel-pump-failures/69340/6 "2009-06-18T08:38:46Z")
My buddy just got his truck out for the summer and his in-tank seized up about 3 miles down the road… he babied it to the house on the in-line “booster” pump… so it is happening. ---
**Author:** ![fiend540](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bcef8e/32.png) [@fiend540](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fiend540)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 9:15am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-having-fuel-pump-failures/69340/7 "2009-06-18T09:15:49Z")
> [@nitroinsane](#): > > the fpr on saturns go bad all the time. While true the first one lasted close to 130,000 miles and the second one lasted whatever she drove in 2.5 months. It’s still retarded that the filter and the fpr are one unit, and is probably related to why they fail all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Jim1234664](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jim1234664/32/7438_2.png) [@Jim1234664](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jim1234664)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 10:10am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-having-fuel-pump-failures/69340/8 "2009-06-18T10:10:13Z")
my subaru has 213,XXX, Still chuggin