Walbro fuel pump disassembly

[joff]

Originally Posted by RETed

Check this page out on fake Walbros:
http://www.fuel-pumps.net/walbro-forgeries.html

There's a lot of other web pages out there, and it's easy to punch in "fake walbro fuel pumps" into a Google search.

This is not hearsay.
It's been know for a few years now.
-Ted

Interesting. Thanks for the links!

Anybody have internal pics of fake vs. real walbros? That link is surprisingly sparse of what I would call real evidence of inferior quality. It basically says, "if its cheap, its likely a fake" and as for how to determine whether its fake: "get a vendor promise" -- sounds more like a vendors emotional marketing appealing to patriotism than actual scientific evidence of quality.

Don't take this the wrong way, but hearsay is information gathered by Person A from Person B concerning some event, condition, or thing of which Person A had no direct experience ("he said she said"). All I meant is that I have no direct experience with fakes, what may be sufficient evidence to you of conspiracy is just hearsay to me.

Maybe Glen at AZRR can respond to the origins of this pump. Walbro's probably just a phone call away too. I have no problem giving them a call and seeing whats up.

[glenrx7]

On the origins of this pump they are not clear. The fd it came from was a customers car about 3 years ago. I believe it is a real walbro. The car was having all kinds of issue fuel related and we have to rewire the entire fuel system. We decided at the time to pull the pump and go back to stock due to the situation. I do not believe there was anything wrong with the pump at the time. The car was being sold and turned out the main issue was a map wiring issue. from my experience this is a real walbro it did not have the turkey gobble or some of what looked like poor build quality (chinese just have a odd looks).

Jesse, weather your doing this with a chinese pump or not great data and sweet research.

I am a 044 fan myself but have used and continue to use walbros.