[davids3511]

Doing 70 in the overtaking lane on Friday on the M62 when the engine suddenly dies, no power. Onto hard shoulder and turn the key, starts straight back up. Same thing happened yesterday on a country lane. Had my mechanic look it over and scanned it for errors. Apparently the fuel pump is causing this and is on way out. £900 for a recon unit on an 06 transit. Is it worth it? Anybody know of some cheap refurbs going?

The key is coded to the pump so a scrappy wont do.

[PoleKing]

Can't you get a one from the scrappy then recode everything?
Gotta be cheaper than a grand innit?

[mufcglen]

you could get a reconned virginised fuel pump pal from trusted guys on ebay etc plonk it in and it codes automatically to the vans system,bleed it and away you go, not that hard to fit either if your handy with a spanner!!

[davids3511]

you could get a reconned virginised fuel pump pal from trusted guys on ebay etc plonk it in and it codes automatically to the vans system,bleed it and away you go, not that hard to fit either if your handy with a spanner!!

I wish I could plonk it in. Don't have that skill set unfortunately.

[davids3511]

Can't you get a one from the scrappy then recode everything?
Gotta be cheaper than a grand innit?

There's too many people involved to make it worthwhile. You need the scrappy, then a guy to fit it, then ford need to use their whizz bizz software to recode it. Then you don't know the condition of the scrappy one. It might have been the reason the van was scrapped in the first place. The fault can be intermittent in the beginning.

[Scrimble]

trade the van in for a new one,

[Ian101]

My previous van was a 2005 transit that started to leak fuel from the fuel pump ... was quoted £1200 to fix it by recon'ing its pump .. looked into getting one from a scrappy but the coding problem was an issue.

With a van only worth about £1600 at the time I decided to scrap it and bought my current van which is a 1700 Combo ... space was a problem at first but soon get used to it .. on upside fuel bill went down by £80 a month 

Put van on ebay and get £1000 for it ... guy who bought it only wanted the gearbox for his Galaxy and was going to stuff dodgy box back into Transit and then resell it on 

Getting to point now where gonna need either another big van of a second small van and tbh would have another one

[mufcglen]

Wish I hadn't sold my transit when I started out trad, just seemed silly driving a van round to carry a set of ladders when I could use the wife's car, could do with it now though now I'm wfp these little partner vans are touch and go for space!
I replaced gearbox on that too only cost me £50, transits are so easy and nice to work on just a shame they rust!

[davids3511]

Sorted now.  Got one fitted yesterday for £450.00