How to find the fuel pump on a 1998 honda accord?
Many vehicles put the gas tank below the trunk which makes fuel pump access easier. That mislocated fuel tank created the famous Pinto fires and fires in GM products (see the cost analysis at Long-Hidden Documents Reveal GM Cost-Benefit Analyses Led to Severe Burn Injuries).

Meanwhile Honda has always put every fuel tank in every car safely ahead of its rear axle. Even Honda has an access plate for the fuel pump.

Some cars may be defectively designed so that a fuel pump access plate is not provided. (I still remember the Chevy's. Remove one motor mount and jack the engine up a few inches to replace two spark plugs.) However, simple design means a same solution is easily implemented in trucks.

Locating a fuel pump inside the gas tank has long been routine. A diesel truck manufacturer must have good reason for still using the long obsoleted suction method. Pumps are routinely mounted in all vehicles (including airplanes) with that pump easily serviced. A curious question is why trucks still use that long since obsoleted suction pumping.

Or maybe this truck is unique? Maybe other trucks do use fuel tank pumps? That would also explain why junior mechanics were easily confused by a simple air bubble in a fuel line.

It just hit me.

BrianR is actually a fuel pump.

Sure, we all are.

Trucks have 2 tanks, or more. So you would need to have two pumps and supporting lines, wires, etc.

See reference to 'gimp' mode. A pump fails. It gets fixed when convenient.

'Gimp' mode is a function available with electronically controlled engines. A part fails. So the computer makes compensations to keep the engine running in a 'safe' mode (see 'Check Engine' light to appreciate same in cars).

Best repair service is obtained when a truck can drive into the shop - not on the side of some road.

Oh good gravy! My fuel pump is gear-driven and that would be difficult to engineer all that way.

I'll see what I can do about pics, inside and out. My chair is quite comfortable, a nice change from seats past. It's wider and softer, and my armrests are adjustable and not broken off for once. I'm liking this, goofy electrical system aside.

Trucks have 2 tanks, or more.

Not necessarily Our big truck ha 1 75 gallon tank

When I say truck, I refer to OTR class 8 trucks. Yours I refer to as a yard dog!

In Zippyt's case, a junkyard dog. :haha:

In Zippyt's case, a junkyard dog

that would be a scrap yard dog , Thank you verry much !!!!!!

this is a Yard dog ( To me at least ) http://www.kalmarind-northamerica.com/show.php?id=2703

and this while not a Class 8 OTR truck , but still a Big truck none the less
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/125/3...42cdbc54_o.jpg

Well it's got 5 axles, it's just shorter. Whats the GVWR?

61500 lbs

Chubby little fucker. :haha:

Currently laid over in Tulsa, OK. Is there a Dwellar here?

Overnighting in New Braunfels, TX and will be spending the rest of tomorrow just west of Brownsville, TX.

Anyone? Anyone?