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Dear Puma friends from across the canal!
I've got a Puma 1.7 (2002) and recently I had some problems with the fuel pump. A couple of times when I tried to start it (spread over a number of months) it would not start and the pump would not make any noise. When I checked the fusebox, the fuse of the fuelpump was broken.
I put a new fuse in and the Puma would start like a new one again! I knew something was clearly wrong, but this quick fix was easy! So, the third time it happend, a new fuse didn't help. It would break immediately after starting my Puma. I than realised my fuelpump was definetely broken and I needed a new one.
Luckely I had some spare parts from a 1999 Puma. My Ford dealer told me the pump would probably be the same, so I could use this one. When I disassembled my fueltank and took out my original fuel pump, I saw that it was al little bit different but the main parts looked the same. So I put in the “new” (secondhand) 1999 fuel pump in the tank.. et voila! My problems where solved!
For like four months yeah… because last weekend I was driving my Puma down the highway. After like 40 kilometres it started to hesitate when I put down the throttle. First little hiccups, strange… Than more and more times no gas under the throttle. When I wanted to pass a truck, I didn’t know if we were gonna make it! Untill there was no acceleration at all. I had to put my Puma on the road shoulder! So we towed him home :’(
Complications this time? The fuel pump worked, but made a strange noise. So we pushed it on the driveway of our house and my boyfriend asked me (because it was heavy to push) to start the Puma en try to give a little gas. Amazing, it started and drove all by itself without us having to push! When we parked it, we tried to start it a couple of times. My Puma would start, but as soon as I would step on the gas a little it would start to hiccup and die immediately. Try starting again. This time it did not start at all. Try starting again, hiccup hiccup. Overall not drivable, not even for a few meters.
So now our guess is that I’ve got a little dirt in my fueltank?? That would explain why my Puma “eats” fuel pumps. Has anyone ever experienced something like this? Any ideas? Perhaps something else is wrong? I don't use my Puma that often, I've got a daily. The Puma is my weekend-car Has that got anything to do with it perhaps?
Like to hear from you guys, thanks! :grin:
Dear Puma friends from across the canal!
I've got a Puma 1.7 (2002) and recently I had some problems with the fuel pump. A couple of times when I tried to start it (spread over a number of months) it would not start and the pump would not make any noise. When I checked the fusebox, the fuse of the fuelpump was broken.
I put a new fuse in and the Puma would start like a new one again! I knew something was clearly wrong, but this quick fix was easy! So, the third time it happend, a new fuse didn't help. It would break immediately after starting my Puma. I than realised my fuelpump was definetely broken and I needed a new one.
Luckely I had some spare parts from a 1999 Puma. My Ford dealer told me the pump would probably be the same, so I could use this one. When I disassembled my fueltank and took out my original fuel pump, I saw that it was al little bit different but the main parts looked the same. So I put in the “new” (secondhand) 1999 fuel pump in the tank.. et voila! My problems where solved!
For like four months yeah… because last weekend I was driving my Puma down the highway. After like 40 kilometres it started to hesitate when I put down the throttle. First little hiccups, strange… Than more and more times no gas under the throttle. When I wanted to pass a truck, I didn’t know if we were gonna make it! Untill there was no acceleration at all. I had to put my Puma on the road shoulder! So we towed him home :’(
Complications this time? The fuel pump worked, but made a strange noise. So we pushed it on the driveway of our house and my boyfriend asked me (because it was heavy to push) to start the Puma en try to give a little gas. Amazing, it started and drove all by itself without us having to push! When we parked it, we tried to start it a couple of times. My Puma would start, but as soon as I would step on the gas a little it would start to hiccup and die immediately. Try starting again. This time it did not start at all. Try starting again, hiccup hiccup. Overall not drivable, not even for a few meters.
So now our guess is that I’ve got a little dirt in my fueltank?? That would explain why my Puma “eats” fuel pumps. Has anyone ever experienced something like this? Any ideas? Perhaps something else is wrong? I don't use my Puma that often, I've got a daily. The Puma is my weekend-car Has that got anything to do with it perhaps?
Like to hear from you guys, thanks! :grin: