Paul,
It is because you left the bakelite spacer out your arm cracked, the same
happened to me when the "ace" mechanic I was using many years ago left the
spacer off. All fuel pumps I am aware of require the spacer.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pam & Paul Bauman" <plhbauman@earthlink.net>
To: "Autox" <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 3:44 PM
Subject: for want of a spring...
> When the fuel pump blew last week, I didn't really take a close look at it
> until I got the new one. On close inspection, I noticed that a return
spring
> is used push the follower arm back down after the cam pushes it up. Well,
> when the follower arm cracked, it let the spring loose. Guess where it
went?
>
> If you guessed the oil pan, you get a cookie. I went looking for a fish
tool
> with a magnet on the end. For three hours today I looked a every car parts
> place and hardware store I could find in the area. No luck.
>
> I even ordered a new oil pan gasket in preparation to drop the pan to find
> that stupid spring. In desperation, I bought a $2.00 pack of magnets and
> taped one of them to the end of a piece of 12 gauge solid copper wire and
> went fishin through the oil drain hole. After about ten minutes I caught
it
> and dragged the little sucker out! Whew!
>
> Now for the techie stuff:
>
> I have to figure out if I need the spacer that I had shipped with the fuel
> pump. Any help here on fuel pump flange thickness would be appreciated. I
> know certain models of the pump do not need the spacer, but which one? The
> new pump looks exactly like the old one and the old one had no spacer. The
> follower arm cracked, so maybe it needed a spacer and was left off at the
> last rebuild. I am not sure two gaskets, the spacer and the pump flange
will
> leave enough stud sticking out to put the securing nuts on all the way.
Any
> suggestions?
>
> Paul Bauman
> Westminster, CA
> 67 1600
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