Jul 27

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7/27/2008 5:31 PM 

I lost an EFI fuel pump and I didn't even know it!!!  It is SSSOOOO nice to have built-in redundancy.  I flew to breakfast and, while starting the plane for the return, noted that I had no pressure from my auxilary high-pressure pump.  No biggie, I flew back home without it.  On further inspection, the pump appears to be mostly seized up.  When I hit it with something (a wrench), it will spin for a moment but then stops.  Both of my pumps are junkyard units so I don't have any bad feelings about it dying.  I quickly found a "new" junkyard replacement and headed back to the sky!!