[AT] fuel transfer pumps

[Cecil Bearden]

I have a bunch of the 12V Fill-rite Red pumps that are not more than 3 
years old and do not work.  They are full of corrosion inside.  Since 
they are sealed airtight to prevent gas vapors from getting in, they 
sweat inside and there is some aluminum components in there that just 
turns into white powder.  At $250 to $300 each you would think they 
would last longer.   I went to a county sale and bought 3 pallets of 
them some were 110 v.  The 110 V were the only ones that would work. the 
12V pumps were trash when you opened them up.  This has happened to both 
very often used pumps and those that are used maybe once a month.  Time 
seems to be the main factor...

As usual, there is no reliability on anything we buy these days.

Cecil in OKla



On 6/14/2016 6:04 AM, Spencer Yost wrote:
> I've never owned one but have been around and used many 12 V, "back of the truck" type pumps. These always seemed bulletproof to me. Maybe buy the 12 V pump,  a battery and a trickle charger?   All three are probably roughly the same cost as the 120V.
>
> Another idea:    many many many years ago(so I don't remember exactly how they did it), a grading firm  had a series of cut off valves, T fittings, hoses and quick connects to allow the truck pump to suck off of a stationary tank when needed to fill the truck tank.  Maybe put a tank and the pump on your truck and use it as a mobil pump station and don't even buy one for the stationary tank?
>
> Then again, you were talking to a guy who's diesel tank was installed 6 feet high so  I could let gravity do the work and not buy a pump. :-)
>
> Spencer Yost
>
>> On Jun 13, 2016, at 10:21 PM, John Hall <jtchall at nc.rr.com> wrote:
>>
>> Well it appears I've had another fuel transfer pump to quit This is the
>> second 115 volt Fill-rite pump I have had to have something electrical
>> go out in it in less than 10 years. According to the meter which I
>> bought new with the first pump, we have pumped a little over 5,000
>> gallons of gas. It seems to me that these pumps ought to be able to
>> handle 5-600 gallons a year for a couple decades, not 4-5 years. The
>> pumps stay under a shelter, never pump over 25 gallons at a time. No
>> repair shop localy wants to touch one once they hear I am pumping
>> gasoline. I buy the cheapest one they make, even then its over $300.
>> Anybody here have any better luck with their more expensive models? How
>> about another brand?
>>
>> John Hall
>>
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