2005 Toyota Corolla with 220,000± miles. So I’m typing this as I lay stranded at work, my car has died twice in the past 2 years due to a fuel pump failure and this would be the 3rd time if it is the fuel pump again. When the replacement went up it was still within the warranty period but I still h…

[image] cfarv: I think I will see if the mechanic can allow me to keep the replaced fuel pump so maybe I could try that myself as well Bench testing the old pump won’t prove anything. When a car with a fuel pump failure comes in we sometimes pound on the bottom of the fuel tank to rattle the …

The Delphi fuel pump came in yesterday, after work today I did the job, my light isnt nearly as bright as yours but this is what it looked like in my fuel tank from the fuel pump hole. How does this fuel look? It looks pretty cloudy but I don’t see any solids floating around. I have only a very basi…

Looks kinda cloudy and funky. If you haven’t installed the pump yet, I think I’d try to get some fuel out and see what’s left lying in the bottom of the tank. It might be just the way your light is reflecting off the bottom of the tank, though. Admittedly, I haven’t looked straight down into many f…

Is your flash light green? Looks odd. Fuel level seems very low, is there at least one inch of fuel in the tank?

Just an update for everyone. I replaced the fuel pump module with a complete assembly Delphi Gasoline Fuel Pump CFG0938 I turned the car on, cranked it, it sputtered and started. It was rough idling at around 400-600 RPM or so for 15 minutes, I figured Id let …

Tank is half full. Admitedly I was taken aback by the design of it myself, but this is the first time I’ve looked in it so there’s that. Headlamp is LED White, the tank looks like its made of some sort of white plastic?

[image] Scrapyard-John: That cumulus cloud in the center of the tank is concerning. I think thats the clean part of the tank maybe from where the pump was sucking and the rest is a film of dirt.

Ah, you may well be correct. That’s not ideal either!

After I pulled out the old pump I dumped the fluid that was inside carefully back into the tank, so maybe I stirred it up at the center causing this cloud. I took picture shortly after

That’s a reflection of the fuel pump hole from where the image was taken. Tester

Fuel pump keeps dying in 2005 Toyota Corolla

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Scrapyard-John September 8, 2021, 2:16am 48

I think maybe the green is the flashlight, the fuel, and the whitish inside of the tank working together, maybe? That cumulus cloud in the center of the tank is concerning.

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