Fuel Pump Life?

[eraugrad]

I'm new to this board and found a few posts on Fuel Pump replacement. I just had mine go out on my 2002 Tahoe @ 40K miles. That seems very early to me. In reading posts about maintenance and vehicle life, it seems that replacing the fuel pump is listed in many as a normal long term replacement.

I am looking for feedback from folks on their experiences with the fuel pumps.

[skeeterman]

There seems to be one question we should addressed to General Motors on the life expectancy concerning the fuel pumps. And that is.."Why can't the fuel pumps be made so they will perform for at least ten or more years".

I have a '96 Tahoe (bought it new in Sept 1995) V8 Vortex with 124,000 miles and still has the original fuel pump. Chevrolet replaced the engine at 6,000 miles due to piston slap and a bad engines they made. I think they made 267,000 bad engines, and most owners didn't know they could get the bad ones replaced (free) if they would have asked.
I had the transmission replaced in Jan 2005 with 122,000 miles at a cost of $2,190.00 with a five years warranty.

From what I read and talk to some Service Managers at various Chevy. dealers, the average fuel pumps last about 65,000 miles. I must be living a charmed life on mine.

[95tahoe190k]

i have a 95 2dr sport 190k 4x4 just replaced the fuel sending unit and pump seems the sending unit was the problem , low fule pressure led me on a sensor search which killed my ecu, said o2 sen , then cleared the code and map sen, cleared that and tps sen each code came up by itself ... never received 2 codes at once cleared the comp. and the map sen code would not clear. the ecu was 65 bux with $200 core damn ! i replaced and had the same prob now im 175 bux into it and same prob. took it to the gm dealer they said map sen i laughed ...... i replaced the sending unit and pump everything is fine now. so 375bux badd sending unit damn ......

[usamarshal]

It seems to be a normal thing for the Tahoes. I've replaced mine three times. The best thing to do to keep the life of the fuel pump is to replace the fuel filter every 10,000 - 15,000 miles. Try doing this and see how it goes for ya, Skip

Originally Posted by eraugrad

I'm new to this board and found a few posts on Fuel Pump replacement. I just had mine go out on my 2002 Tahoe @ 40K miles. That seems very early to me. In reading posts about maintenance and vehicle life, it seems that replacing the fuel pump is listed in many as a normal long term replacement.

I am looking for feedback from folks on their experiences with the fuel pumps.

[bandicot]

My fuel pump seems to be very loud. Does anybody else have this problem?

[usamarshal]

I know your supposed to be able to hear the fuel pump once you turn the ignition on. Is it loud all the time? Are you able to hear it when the vehicle is running?

Originally Posted by bandicot

My fuel pump seems to be very loud. Does anybody else have this problem?

[skeeterman]

Two Chevy dealers told me, "when you hear the fuel pump", you have a good working pump. Mine makes the "good" sounding noise, the service manager told me.

You don't hear the fuel pump working while ddriving.

[bandicot]

I couldnt tell you if it still does while driving, but Ill give it a check. I havent had any problems with it I was mostly curious if this was a normal thing.

[MT-2500]

For a long life on a fuel pump always keep the fuel tank above 1/4 tank and a good clean fuel filter on it.
People who run there tanks low on or out of fuel are the people that are always replacing fuel pumps.
It needs fuel in the tank to cool the fuel pump. No fuel and the pumps gets hot and fries.
MT

[Randy0157]

Help! I've taken my 2000 Tahoe in for service because it has a high pitch sound (sometimes) when you press on the gas. The faster you go the higher pitch it makes (sounds like a siren or speaker feed back). Also, my gas gage always shows 3/4 full. This all happened at once. Could it have to do with the fuel pump? The service dept. told me he couldn't hear the sound and my fuel gage was broke. Any other suggestions? Thanks!

[MT-2500]

Originally Posted by Randy0157

Help! I've taken my 2000 Tahoe in for service because it has a high pitch sound (sometimes) when you press on the gas. The faster you go the higher pitch it makes (sounds like a siren or speaker feed back). Also, my gas gage always shows 3/4 full. This all happened at once. Could it have to do with the fuel pump? The service dept. told me he couldn't hear the sound and my fuel gage was broke. Any other suggestions? Thanks!

You need to start a new brand post on your problem.
Two different people with two different problems on same post gets confusing.
Mt