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Dan, points well noted in your post. Maybe it's just the shops I do business with around here. One in particular wont even bench test a pump for me without tearing it down first to make sure it's not contaminated! Now I ask you, why can't they just run clean fuel through it and dump whatever comes out of it first until their clean fuel comes out? It is for this reason and the others I noted earlier that I've started doing a lot more pump repairs myself. For example, I've repaired a handful of inline Simms pumps lately with cam bearings going out of them. I just take them all apart, keep all the plungers, etc. in order, and don't touch the rack. I clean everything up and set up the cam end play just like I do anything else with tapered bearings, put it all back together, and never have a problem. Now, if I send the same pump into my local pump shop for the same repair, I'm told I need a new cam because it has a few small pits in it, I'm told I need new plungers and barrels because they're slightly discolored, etc. I don't get out of there for less than $1200. I do the same job for cam bearings only for about $200 (and the pumps stay together). I guess this all boils down to what the shop is willing to allow the customer to decide when questionable potential "problems" appear. My point in the last post was that it has been my experience that fuel injection repair shops are far less flexible in this area than any other types of shops that I do business with. If a guy brings something in for repair and it needs a lot of work that he won't let you do, you either don't do the job, or you tell him you will but wont stand behind it. On the flip side, don't replace a bunch of parts that still have a lot of service life left to them, because then guys like me will be doing less business with you. P.S. please don't take any of this personally.
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