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...maybe you can convince the shop to open it up for you and look into it, for free. If you trust them still that is.
Could also be a bad idea because you're at their mercy as to what they say is wrong, and how much to fix it. And, maybe they just won't know.
I pulled a pump from a '96 once to have on hand as a spare. As I recall, once locking ring was tapped on, round and round its perimeter, finally loosened up and removed, wire connector popped open and unplugged, and lines CAREFULLY unclipped and gently twisted out, while pulling straight, NOT prying on the elbow, it was still a touchy thing to twist the pump to the right position to come out. It will come, but you have to be twisting and turning and angling it. No forcing allowed.
The wire arm for the float kind of clips onto the rheostat that measures its position, and those clips could break, or it could be loose from the clips and even pulled right out.
The return line runs to a short length of nylon line that dumps straight down inside the outer plastic can the float sits in. The pickup is a white plastic thing jutting out down low. A black nylon line feeds into it, carrying, from a tee below the pressure outlet up top, straight there any of the pressurized fuel that's beyond the needs of the engine and what the fuel pressure regulator sends back through the return line.
That white plastic pickup fitting seems to be pressed into a port in the can body, with o-ring or o-rings.
It's hard to say from looking at things what exactly could be wrong with yours.I guess as Simon, Mr. B and no-name say, you'll have to open things up to see what.
It's interesting, counter to what you might imagine the fuel pickup doesn't pick up its fuel off the bottom of the tank, and not even as low as the bottom of the pump canister, maybe up over an inch. There's a pretty large "deep" there that remains always untouched - - I'd say, by design, and vastly larger than needed for any normal contaminants that might get in over the life of the car, to stay below pickup depth. When I pulled my pump I reached in with good gloves on and first a flattened tin can, then a clean shop towel, and bailed and then sopped up all that gas, netting well over a gallon - - I think nearer two. It appeared all totally clean, no water other than maybe a trace I got out by tapping the bottom of a milk jug I put it into, and no sediment of any kind to be felt anywhere in tank, not even colored or unclear gas. This was a year ago, on a then l5-year-old, 200,000 mile car.
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