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Thanks for the test. I passed the I'm alive one without any problem. Got to the 15k and failed. But since I'm in the late 60's I guess that aint to bad.
I'm an old OK farm kid. After all the years of driving the farm stuff you get to the point where you can tell when something is going bad by the way it sounds, unless your cutting corn then its broke when you can not hear anything. Ya it does start and appears to run ok.....but since it use to make the noise and now it doesn't the farmer in me is asking "ok what has changed"? If lack of the noise means that the pump is starting to go bad then I want to change it before I get 500 miles out in the boonies with no cell service.
Thought I would just ask to see if this is common with the miles and its not a big deal or if it is on the down hill side of working.
Thanks.
Do what you want. Get someone else to listen or spend a couple hundred on a new pump. I can usually hear mine in the garage when I start her up in the morning. Rarely can I hear it when I'm out like at gas stations, restaurants etc.
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