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Re: Re: Vacuum pump under front

Reply #20 –
Sorry for the confusion Kev.  You can plug any extra vacuum lines.  I had a cannister originally, you may not have but you will need one with the pump I linked.  It's been a few years since I replaced mine but basically I had a cannister that I attached to a vacuum port on the pump, then wired it up.  Like I said before you'll need to power up the pump on your work  bench and see what ports are which.  If it's a bust you can return it to Amazon.

FT is Foretravel, mate.

Re: Re: Vacuum pump under front

Reply #21 –
Quote from: Travelin' Man –
Sorry for the confusion Kev.  You can plug any extra vacuum lines.  I had a cannister originally, you may not have but you will need one with the pump I linked.  It's been a few years since I replaced mine but basically I had a cannister that I attached to a vacuum port on the pump, then wired it up.  Like I said before you'll need to power up the pump on your work  bench and see what ports are which.  If it's a bust you can return it to Amazon.

FT is Foretravel, mate.
That's OK no worries, I'm off to bed now, but in morning il send you photo of mine, perhaps there is some kind of cannister inside, if not then maybe you can take a photo of your layout, so I can see what you have done, anyway thanks for help, il be in touch tomorrow kev

Re: Vacuum pump under front

Reply #22 –
Quote from: jor –
Was on the coach when I bought it. Here's a close up of the tag. Probably nothing special about this pump. I would think you could get one pretty cheap.
jor

My pump finally quit working after 30 years. The motor was frozen and inoperable so a rebuild kit was out of the question.  I got lucky and found one on Craigslist for about half the price of a new one.  The fella I bought it from never used it for a project he was working on.  It's the same Gast MOA-VIII-JH as the original.  It came with it's own mounting bracket so I just attached it the existing bracket on the frame. It works great and shuts off after about 10 seconds when vacuum is reached.  I can operate the buttons for the vents about 10 times before it kicks on again. 

Jerry

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Reply #23 –
I just noticed your post,
Mine packed up along time ago, I took it off but haven't got round to replacing it yet, maybe I can service mine with a kit, but like yours it's so old 34years, so the chances are it will probably be like yours, and il have to look for one eventually, luckily the air was  blowing onto my windscreen when it stopped working, it's not urgent as I still got so mutch to do before I get it back on the road, just out of curiosity, how mutch would a new one cost me if I was to get one from an auto trader please, I also have the added expense of postage to the uk

Re: Vacuum pump under front

Reply #24 –
I replaced mine last year with a vacuum pump from a ford diesel pickup.  I think it cost me about $50.

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Reply #25 –
Quote from: kevo0000 –
I just noticed your post,
Mine packed up along time ago, I took it off but haven't got round to replacing it yet, maybe I can service mine with a kit, but like yours it's so old 34years, so the chances are it will probably be like yours, and il have to look for one eventually, luckily the air was  blowing onto my windscreen when it stopped working, it's not urgent as I still got so mutch to do before I get it back on the road, just out of curiosity, how mutch would a new one cost me if I was to get one from an auto trader please, I also have the added expense of postage to the uk

Kevo,
Yours looks very rusted and the motor probably is frozen.  I was going to try and rebuild mine at first with a Gast repair kit.
Gast K309 Repair Kit Parts FREE 2 DAY SHIPPING. - GPindustrialUSA.com  After bench testing it out of the coach with a 12v battery it wouldn't even spin over and removal of all the rusted screws, etc. would have been difficult.  I tried to free it up with no success and it kept blowing fuses.

I wanted to stay OEM without any modifications because GAST pumps are heavy duty and last a long time.  Other much cheaper pumps will work just fine as others have used and I probably would have done that had I not found this one on Craigslist for $250 practically brand new.  The cheapest new one I could find in stock was from TECO Gast |Vac Pump .56 scfm 12VDC | MOA-V111-JH - TECO Technology Not sure about shipping to the uk. 

Jerry

 
 

Re: Re: Vacuum pump under front

Reply #26 –
Quote from: coastprt –
Kevo,
Yours looks very rusted and the motor probably is frozen.  I was going to try and rebuild mine at first with a Gast repair kit.
Gast K309 Repair Kit Parts FREE 2 DAY SHIPPING. - GPindustrialUSA.com  After bench testing it out of the coach with a 12v battery it wouldn't even spin over and removal of all the rusted screws, etc. would have been difficult.  I tried to free it up with no success and it kept blowing fuses.

I wanted to stay OEM without any modifications because GAST pumps are heavy duty and last a long time.  Other much cheaper pumps will work just fine as others have used and I probably would have done that had I not found this one on Craigslist for $250 practically brand new.  The cheapest new one I could find in stock was from TECO Gast |Vac Pump .56 scfm 12VDC | MOA-V111-JH - TECO Technology Not sure about shipping to the uk. 

Jerry
Yeah thanks, il have a look at that link, it's wierd because I started this thread about 4 year ago, I didn't realise until I sent you a message and then I scrolled through and I thought well I couldn't work out how a thread that I started ages ago, suddenly came to light again, I always thought once a thread gets to a certain ammount of time especially that long ago, it never gets seen again, and I was just sat browsing through last night, and I had put a post up about my fuel solenoid, and saw your post, if i had wanted to find that thread that I had posted that long ago, I would have never have found it, ha ha, ive never been very good at finding things on this forum, there's a list of different menus and it literally takes me ages to start a topic, eventually I get there, and sometimes I lose the message completely before I've sent it and then I have to start all over again, I'm on Facebook and Instagram but struggle with things and I just don't use it anymore, the only thing I use is messenger cause it's simple ,