I bypassed the settling bowl in favor of an inline filter. My car kept
running like it was starved for gas or vapor locked. I currently use an
inline filter. I was just getting ready to ask if anyone had fuel pump
problems on the 64 1500s.
Any comments/suggestions?
Charlie Hubbard
1964 1500
> -----Original Message-----
> From: shifty [SMTP:shifty@well.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 12, 1999 3:12 PM
> To: Datsun Roadsters
> Subject: Re: gas flow questions
>
>
>
> On 2/12/99 12:29 PM, Gary Gerding wrote:
>
> >*Has anyone experienced trouble getting fuel through the glass settling
> > bowl when you have an origional fuel filter in it, but not when you
> don't?
> >
> >*Should the glass settling bowl be full of gas or only partly full when
> > the car is either running or not.
>
> Mine tends to stay around 3/4 full.
>
> >> *After you remove the glass settling bowl from the car and then
> reinstall
> > it, is there a priming proceedure?
>
> There must be, I had a heck of a time getting gas through there when I
> put the glass bowl back on my'64 1500. I finally filled it up with gas
> and reinstalled it. Works fine, now.
>
> Leigh Brooks
> San Francisco
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