2000 ford explorer fuel pump replacement

#2000 ford explorer fuel pump replacement drivers#

This may help someone, as i think it would have been a tough job if only one hole above the pump was cut. One thing helped by cutting the hole as the orginal post said was it helped moving the wires rubber gromlet to move wires and gain room to remove pump.

#2000 ford explorer fuel pump replacement drivers#

if looking at the hole i cut from the passenger side back door the pump location ( center of pump cover ) was about 6 inches toward drivers side back door and about 6 inches back toward the trunk, another way to think about its position, in the orginal post pictures if the center of the pump picture is at 6 o'clock ( looking at it from rear passenger side door ) the location of the 2005 zx5 2 liter pump is at about 10:30 o'clock. I dropped the gas tank a couple inches and looked thru the hole i had cut, i could see the pump cover / hole. I cut the hole as the layout showed, used a dremal with reinforsed fiberglass cutter, cut 3 sides and folded it back, there was nothing there but the top of the gas tank. Five minutes later, with no power to the pump, the engine was still running! Go figure.Įxc post and pictures, so yesterday i replaced the fuel pump on my 2005 zx5 with 60,000 miles on it. I thought the engine would die after a few seconds. Before disconnecting the fuel line from the top of the pump assembly, I disconnected the pump's electrical harness on top then started the engine to de-pressurize the fuel lines. I drilled pilot holes with a 1/8 titanium bit. To put the plate that I cut back in place, I bolted some plumbing strap material across the plate and onto either side with 12x1/2 sheet-metal bolts. Then I pressed the old strainer onto the new pump. But I was able to pop the old strainer off the old pump with a small flat-head screw-driver. Neither of the two strainers that came with the new pump would fit inside the assembly. Popping them open gives access to the pump inside the assembly. The assembly is held together by four push-in tabs near the top. The assembly itself can be disassembled to access the pump. This disengaged the tabs from the bottom of the tank, allowing the pump assembly to be lifted right out. To remove the pump assembly, I had to firmly grab it and rotate it counterclockwise. It's different from any of the pump assemblies that were available at my local parts stores or anywhere online. The pump assembly in my 2000 Focus SOHC SPI is held down with four flat tabs in the base - rotating the assembly engages the tabs into the bottom of the tank. I don't think it matters much what you hit it with. I knocked the lock-ring loose with a flat-head screw-driver and a rubber mallet. I'm not a safety expert, so I don't know how safe this whole thing was. Great deal of good the extinguisher would have done had anything gone wrong - probably I would not have had time to use it. I had a fire extinguisher handy because sparks were flying everywhere. Much quicker - about thirty seconds per side.

Next I switched to a grinder with a cutting wheel. The Dremel took about 20 minutes to cut one side of the square. I followed your instructions, and started out with the Dremel. Thanks for the write-up and especially the photos.