Had an interesting one today, went up to a farm near Gundaroo to help with some pump issues.
I knew she had a Honda firefighting pump, that was very dead, and it had been replaced with a Honda transfer pump, that was put outside it's limits by the length of incline that needed to be covered.
Anyway, after looking at the set up, I felt that a transfer pump was just not the right pump for the Job, however, perhaps if the old pump was still around, maybe I could fix it, or take the pump hosing, and transfer it to a new engine.
Anyway, she explained the pump was killed by a flood which left it submerged for a full week, which happened to hit weeks after it had just been serviced (for $900!!!!)
Anyway, after the flood, it would not start, so it went to the shop, who informed her it was not savable, and proceeded to sell her a nice shiny and very expensive transfer pump, they then went to throw the old one out for her, but her son insisted it was kept (for some reason, he had to be quite persistent to get it, even though it was theirs) and the dead pump was taken home, and popped in a shed sometime last year.
I was guessing water in the cylinder had caused damage, and by now some good rust, but hoping maybe a hone or re bore was on the cards.
Anyway, got it out, only to find it turned over very freely, and felt quite good all up, so i informed her it was in my opinion very fixable, and took it on.
Got it home, fuel on, choke, pull, pull, off it went, sounding sweet!
So much for this needs to go, here is a nice expensive new one! (I'm guessing that the some received argument when he asked to get it back, as they wanted to sell it on)
I'm going to ask if she wants me to clean out the tank and carby etc, to make sure whatever gunk the car trip home rattled free (it would not start when we got it out of the shed) does not get caught back up in it, but apart from that, it shows two things:
1) Some shops out there are ripping people off to the point of it actually being theft(well, attempted theft through fraud)
2) Even after a full week, completely submerged, it's a Honda pump, it's all good!
