SMT HAS ENG SURGE THEN QUIT ON SVFR CLRNC. LAND OPPOSITE DIRECTION RWY.

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AT APPROX XA45 LCL WE DEPARTED 29G TO REPOSITION THE ACFT TO CGF. UPON CONTACTING CGF TWR WE WERE ADVISED THAT THE CTL ZONE WAS IFR. WE THEN CONTACTED CLE APCH AND REQUESTED AND RECEIVED A SPECIAL VFR CLRNC INTO THE CGF CTL ZONE. APPROX 3 MI FROM THE ARPT THE L ENG STARTED TO SURGE ALONG WITH ITS FUEL PRESSURE. WHILE TRYING TO ISOLATE THIS PROB APCH CTL CALLED US TWICE. WE THEN RPTED TO APCH WE HAD THE ARPT. WE ATTEMPTED TO CONTACT CGF TWR WITH NO RESPONSE. SINCE WX CONDITIONS WERE LESS THAN VFR AND WE HAD NOT YET ISOLATED THE ENG/FUEL PROB; WE ELECTED THAT THE SAFEST ACTION WOULD BE TO LAND ON RWY 23 (RWY 5 WAS ACTIVE). ON TOUCHDOWN THE L-HAND ENG NOT RUNNING. AFTER LNDG WE CONTACTED THE TWR BY LANDLINE AND INFORMED THEM WHAT HAD HAPPENED. THEY SAID THERE WAS NO PROB AND WOULD NOT TAKE ANY ACTION. PRELIMINARY MAINT RPTS INDICATE A FAILURE OF BOTH PRIMARY FUEL PUMP AND BOOST PUMP. CALLBACK CONVERSATION WITH REPORTER REVEALED THE FOLLOWING: RPTR STATES HE DOES NOT BELIEVE THEY DECLARED AN EMER BECAUSE THEY WERE TOO BUSY TRYING TO DETERMINE THE PROB AND DID NOT HAVE TIME TO COMMUNICATE. PROB DETERMINED TO BE A RECENTLY REPLACED FUEL SELECTOR VALVE WHICH WAS BLOCKED AND CAUSED FUEL STARVATION. RPT SENT BECAUSE CTLR SEEMED UPSET DUE TO ACFT WAITING ON OPPOSITE END OF RWY. RPTR DOES NOT THINK ANYTHING WILL COME OF IT.