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Re: Re: Vacuum pump under front

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

 
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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 ,
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