Fuel system, gasoline: delivery: fuel pump (Holley)
Vehicle equipment recall 91E-034. NHTSA received COLTEC INDUSTRIES INC’s report on Sep 17, 1991.
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The short answer
NHTSA received COLTEC INDUSTRIES INC’s report on Sep 17, 1991. Copied from NHTSA on Oct 28, 2026.
Every line below is in NHTSA’s own words, with its source beside it.
What’s wrong with it?
CHANGES IN THE FUEL DENSITY RESULTING FROM THEINTRODUCTION OF AIR AT THE FUEL PUMP CAN CREATE SURGES AT HIGH VEHICLE SPEEDS ORCAUSE STALLING IN IDLE CONDITIONS. EXCESSIVE STALLING MAY CREATE A ROAD HAZARDCONDITION. SURGES AT HIGH SPEED COULD RESULT IN LOSS OF VEHICLE CONTROL AND ANACCIDENT.
THE FUEL PUMPS MAY CONTAIN A DAMAGED INTERIOR SEAL.
A DAMAGED INTERIOR SEAL MAY INTRODUCE AIR INTO THE FUEL SYSTEM, CHANGING THE FUEL DENSITY.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated daily.
- NHTSA’s part: Fuel system, gasoline: delivery: fuel pump.
What should you do?
REPLACE THE DEFECTIVE FUEL PUMPS.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated daily.
- How to reach the firm: SYSTEM: FUEL PUMP.EQUIPMENT DESCRIPTION: REPLACEMENT ELECTRIC FUEL PUMP; MODELS 12-801 AND 12-802.
Which ones are recalled?
NHTSA counts 493 items potentially involved, across everything this recall names.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated daily.
- Holley 12-802Built from Jul 1, 1991 to Aug 1, 1991
- Holley 12-801Built from Jul 1, 1991 to Aug 1, 1991
Who is recalling it?
- Made by COLTEC INDUSTRIES INC.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated daily.
What the record doesn’t say
- NHTSA’s recall file doesn’t say whether anyone was hurt.
- Which ones, by part or lot: the recall’s report on NHTSA’s site gives them where the maker did; this file gives part numbers only where its maker listed them.
- How many have been returned or fixed isn’t in the notice.
Hearth Record wrote these lines.
Sources
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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Recalls flat file before 2010 (FLAT_RCL_PRE_2010).
Released Oct 28, 2026 and checked Oct 28, 2026. Updated daily. Public domain (U.S. Government work).
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