Hi everybody,

I have not been on here in a very long time. Some of you who go way back may remember me. I now live in Florida and just purchased my fourth Trooper. It's a 1999 5spd w/ at least 165K miles, odometer is dead.

The fuel pump is dying. I'd like to avoid pulling the fuel tank and I remembered reading about little buddies amigo. There was a magazine article written about his amigo and someone posted it here. In the article he talked about adding an extra fuel pump, I think it was a Toyota in-line fuel pump that had the same pressure and what ever else a fuel pump should have. I tried searching but came up w/ nothing. Can anyone help me out w/ this?

Thanks, it's good to be back, Rick W.

I can't help you with your exact question, but personally, I'd drop the tank and replace the pump. There's a reason they're in there. They run cooler (usually means they last longer) plus electric pumps are better at pushing than pulling. So when it's in the tank, it only pulls a little bit.

What makes you think your pump is going bad? Usually they just die.

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I'm not much of a mechanic... but I had another '99 Trooper a couple years ago that had the EXACT same symptoms... It was cured by replacing the fuel pump.
The Trooper started acting up about an hour from Atlanta, after driving for 5+ hours at 80 - 90 mph. I was on my way to rent a 2000lb u-haul car trailer in ATL so that I could pull home an old engine-less Meyers Manx clone I'd just purchased up near Atlanta. At first the Trooper starts acting like it's running out of gas or the transmission is slipping or something. The more you push the go peddle the worse it gets. By the time I picked up the trailer it was to the point where most people would pull over and call a tow truck. It would only rev to maybe 2200 rpm's and then the engine would die out until you let off the gas and dropped the rpm's. Like it's starving for fuel. I'm stubborn and not that bright, but very determined to get home with the new buggy. So I keep pulling over, letting it rest for a little bit, and then its good for a few miles and then the whole problem starts over ago. I realized that if the tank was full it would run normally for the first 3 - 5 gallons. So the rest of the way home I'd fill up as soon as it started dying which was after the top 3 - 5 gallons in each tankful.

I'm pretty sure I'm going to change the in-tank pump out, but there are a lot of choices on what to replace it with. Factory $417. Napa $235. Advanced Auto parts $95, but it's just the pump not the whole unit like the other two. Which should I go with???

Thanks, Rick W.

I'd try replacing the fuel filter before going onto the pump. It's worth a try and a lot cheaper. Plus, if you do have to go with a new pump, you should replace the filter anyways.

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Its not that hard to put in an inline pump , but you might have to replace some of the line at the same time.With my setup I am running an EFI pump(to handle the pressure) and it works fine.I had a regular pump that had the right pressure , but it wouldn't keep it constant for the TBI , so I had stalling issues until I got the right pump.If you do a search under my previous posts you will find out more about what I did.The pump is a Holley by the way , good up to 35 PSI.