[Interior] Access to Fuel Pump?
11-20-2006, 06:57 PM
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Access to Fuel Pump?
Just wondering if the engineers will be designing an access panel inside the car for the fuel pump? Or will the fuel pump be externally mounted? I'm still dissappointed at GM for not making this a must on new cars. Maybe its just me but I didn't like cutting my exhaust, dropping the axle just to get at the fuel tank and I didn't want to cut that dreaded L shape into the sheet metal behind the back seat. Anybody in the know or with connections so that this can be done? Thanks for reading my rant!
Colin
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11-20-2006, 07:49 PM
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Just wondering if the engineers will be designing an access panel inside the car for the fuel pump? Or will the fuel pump be externally mounted? I'm still dissappointed at GM for not making this a must on new cars. Maybe its just me but I didn't like cutting my exhaust, dropping the axle just to get at the fuel tank and I didn't want to cut that dreaded L shape into the sheet metal behind the back seat. Anybody in the know or with connections so that this can be done? Thanks for reading my rant!
Colin
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11-21-2006, 05:27 AM
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Looks like 2 Pumps at the bottom to me
Calls for Exhaust (under the Axle and Tank), Driveshaft, Rearaxleassammbley removal from my POV.
Spring and Shocks are fixed within the Assambley (?)
Why did you cut your exhaust anyway?
11-21-2006, 02:02 PM
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Why did you cut your exhaust anyway?
. With the exhaust out of the way it made things alot easier plus it gave me a good excuse to get a new muffler 
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12-11-2006, 12:42 AM
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Oh ya, that would be nice. I hate being held hostage by the damn hack shops. Man, they tore up my 89 that last time the fuel pump went out. The job they did on putting the exhaust back in after they cut it was horrible. Is GM the only manufacture that does this? All other cars I've seen seem to have an access panel.
06-03-2007, 01:25 PM
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I cut the exhaust because it made it easier to remove the tank, you have to slide the tank towards the passenger side, where the exhaust is because of the filler neck on the other side plus the tank was full, Murphy's Law eh . With the exhaust out of the way it made things alot easier plus it gave me a good excuse to get a new muffler .
. With the exhaust out of the way it made things alot easier plus it gave me a good excuse to get a new muffler .
07-24-2007, 12:25 PM
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almost all imports do, i have changed vw fuel pumps in less than 12 min before, also i know cadillac cars do have an access panel also
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07-24-2007, 08:30 PM
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07-24-2007, 09:32 PM
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how long ago was that,, i have been a vw tech for 9 years and have always used the access door on them, passats even had a recall on them for 2002 and i can do them in 12-15 min
im also a gm/cadillac certified tech and several gm vehicles are now coming with access doors
