Kenneth Cole
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Hi
Is there a part number for the fuel pump so I can get it from say Napa ?
Ken
Is there a part number for the fuel pump so I can get it from say Napa ?
Ken
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How dare you ask for owners to use the TM’s…that’s blasphemyYES there is. When are we going to learn to use the TM's or google?
Got up on the wrong side of the bed, CAMO
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Got up on the wrong side of the country???How dare you ask for owners to use the TM’s…that’s blasphemy
i get it, But unfortunately you have to Apply the “KISS” theory just like we did in the military….if not , you are just under the assumption the individuals will actually remember a rather complex method of finding part numbers via NSN.Or I could continue to just give the part number every time someone asks "what part number do I need to buy this at NAPA/Oreillys/CutRate/CarQuest etc.
Yes, you can find plenty of fuel pump part numbers by just searching the original part. That doesn't answer the question though of "what part number do I buy at NAPA?" as NAPA doesn't recognize that number in their system. So at that point you'll still have to find cross referenced part numbers for that pump.
A couple times I trusted random websites that gave cross reference numbers like that, and ended up with parts that, while functionally equivalent, have some feature that makes them unusable for my specific application. One example is belt tensioners. You cross one part number, to an aftermarket part number, that then someone else crosses to their part, and after you get the part in you realize that it will interfere with the belt because they put the travel limiter on the opposite side from the one you have.
I was trying to do it as a teaching moment so that in the future when a part DOESN'T come up immediately during a basic web search, they will have more options to find the part they are looking for, or functional equivalents thereof. I have a lot more faith in the PartTarget website than I do listings on ebay or amazon.
.i get it, But unfortunately you have to Apply the “KISS” theory just like we did in the military….if not , you are just under the assumption the individuals will actually remember a rather complex method of finding part numbers via NSN.
I was an instructor for 28yrs in my Civilian job as a communications engineer, I wrote white papers, Mfg documentation and taught classes…99.9% would literally call me the following week after a class asking me basic questions on the very platform they were required to pass a test in order to pass the class, first question I asked was “do you have the manual?”
The answer 9 out of 10 times was No….they just couldn’t help themselve, it was easier to call Tech Support.
we ultimately ended up implementing an addition to our back office system “Remedy” that we were able to select a tab that said “yes or no” on whether a tech had his manuals on hand before calling tech support, techs woukd literally sit on a site for 8hrs waiting for a tech support engineer to call back without ever opening a book to help themselves.
I've run across the same thing in the civilian world.i get it, But unfortunately you have to Apply the “KISS” theory just like we did in the military….if not , you are just under the assumption the individuals will actually remember a rather complex method of finding part numbers via NSN.
I was an instructor for 28yrs in my Civilian job as a communications engineer, I wrote white papers, Mfg documentation and taught classes…99.9% would literally call me the following week after a class asking me basic questions on the very platform they were required to pass a test in order to pass the class, first question I asked was “do you have the manual?”
The answer 9 out of 10 times was No….they just couldn’t help themselve, it was easier to call Tech Support.
we ultimately ended up implementing an addition to our back office system “Remedy” that we were able to select a tab that said “yes or no” on whether a tech had his manuals on hand before calling tech support, techs woukd literally sit on a site for 8hrs waiting for a tech support engineer to call back without ever opening a book to help themselves.
It ain't complexi get it, But unfortunately you have to Apply the “KISS” theory just like we did in the military….if not , you are just under the assumption the individuals will actually remember a rather complex method of finding part numbers via NSN.
I was an instructor for 28yrs in my Civilian job as a communications engineer, I wrote white papers, Mfg documentation and taught classes…99.9% would literally call me the following week after a class asking me basic questions on the very platform they were required to pass a test in order to pass the class, first question I asked was “do you have the manual?”
The answer 9 out of 10 times was No….they just couldn’t help themselve, it was easier to call Tech Support.
we ultimately ended up implementing an addition to our back office system “Remedy” that we were able to select a tab that said “yes or no” on whether a tech had his manuals on hand before calling tech support, techs woukd literally sit on a site for 8hrs waiting for a tech support engineer to call back without ever opening a book to help themselves.
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