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I am looking for the fuel pump on my 98 528i. Some are telling me it is in the fuel tank, but it looks like it may be under the car, near the left front tire by the fuel filter. Which is it?
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Found this online for a 97, hope it is the same: YEs, I'll post up some pictures as I do the job. I have everything back together right now...waiting on the new fuel pump to come in the mail. It looks like there are three plastic tabs that could be pried outward, but that counters some instructions I found elsewhere online that spoke to squeezing two clamps which would free up the pump. But just to give you an update from the first post in this thread: the fuel pump is under the passenger side access panel in under the rear seat. Just yank up the rear seat and it will come off. If your pump has never been changed, you'll have to cut the rubber insulation between the access cover and the seat. Remove the access cover with the 3 phillips head screws. Underneath there, you have the wiring harness connected to the access cover you just removed and you'll see the fuel line going onto the plastic nipple. Clamp the fuel line with a cclamp and remove. I then plugged the line with a large bolt so i could remove the clamp which was kind of in the wya. The wiring harness has a little slide the you first must push toward you (assuming you are standing or hunched over in the rear passenger door) and then it easily comes off. once you have those things removed, you'll see a ring with some grooves in it. THat is threaded and if you take a heavy screwdriver or other like device and place it on one of the grooves and tap it with a rubber mallet to knock it loose enough until you unscrew it by hand. From there, you'll have to break the seal of the cover. I use a paint can opener. Then lift up the cover which is attached to the fuel level sensor and float and you can see your fuel pump in your gas tank. It sits in a plastic assembly, the whole of which doesn't even look like it would fit out of the access hole, but I guess it must. I just want to remove the pump itself and that's where I ran into the trouble. Easy job up to this point, though it was a bitch getting the float assembly back into the tank properly. It didn't want to wiggle down into its proper fit. Also, try to do this job with as little gas in the tank as possible or your hands will be submersed in gasoline during that last part of trying to maneuver the pump and or pump/assembly. If you don't wear gloves, gas burns your skin after a little while.