Maggsie8
Active Member
OK... so when I brought my 90 TD5 a few months back, one of the things listed as recently being done was a replacement fuel pump (which would seem true given he hadn't connected the fuel lines back properly, which I discovered 3 weeks into owning it when I ****ed a tank full of fuel out down the local high street!!).
Anyway... the pump has always been noisy since I've had it and this didn't change when the pipes were reconnected (correctly). The mechanic who did this commented on it and tested the voltage being used which I think was 9 (I think that's what he said... not a mechanic myself so might have terms wrong but if was defiantly 9 something). While he said this was higher than he would have expected everything else (pressure, etc.) seemed fine and it was probably just a noisy pump.
This is my 1st Defender... had disco's before this so don't know if this is the norm or common, but my gut is telling me that while a Defender is not considered the quietest of things... a consent loud hum isn't right! Plus I can't hear all the other normal knocking, tapping and crunching going on so I feel I'm being robbed of the true enjoyment of owning a defender
Thoughts, comments would be greatly appreciated.
Anyway... the pump has always been noisy since I've had it and this didn't change when the pipes were reconnected (correctly). The mechanic who did this commented on it and tested the voltage being used which I think was 9 (I think that's what he said... not a mechanic myself so might have terms wrong but if was defiantly 9 something). While he said this was higher than he would have expected everything else (pressure, etc.) seemed fine and it was probably just a noisy pump.
This is my 1st Defender... had disco's before this so don't know if this is the norm or common, but my gut is telling me that while a Defender is not considered the quietest of things... a consent loud hum isn't right! Plus I can't hear all the other normal knocking, tapping and crunching going on so I feel I'm being robbed of the true enjoyment of owning a defender
Thoughts, comments would be greatly appreciated.
