Breakdown on Wolf Creek Pass

About noon we left Mesa Verde to get to our intended campground for the evening on the other side of Wolf Creek Pass. Unfortunately our fuel pump died as we started up the pass. The end result you can see below.

Why did the fuel pump die? Was it old age or bad gas? Or was it because when I asked the mechanic's shop this year at our yearly oil change if we should change the fuel filter he looked in the records and said we did it last year and there was no need. After it died I checked my records and saw that we replaced the one on the generator, not the engine. So maybe the fuel pump was working too hard to get us up all those mountain passes.

The end result was that we were camped at the mechanics that night and the next morning the dogs got to wait in their holding pen until we got a new fuel pump. This took all day due to them having to drop the gas tank and move some of the plumbing out of the way.


By about 5:30 p.m. we were on our way again.