You know, it's funny how all these cars are a little
different. I have replaced the fuel pump on my early
'66 1600 and also on my '68 2000 before and never
encountered a problem, at least nothing like the ones
discussed here. I think these cars were just
assembled, almost handmade, and nothing is exactly the
same, as you would now expect with new cars. I
remember putting 195 tires on my '66 that cleared fine
on one side, but rubbed on the other. The joys of
custom assembled cars!!
Mike SC
--- John F Sandhoff <sandhoff@csus.edu> wrote:
> > Okay, I feel silly asking this, but how the heck
> does one remove
> > the fuel pump from a 1600 without lifting the
> engine?
>
> Is there an echo in here? :-)
>
> Enrique posted this on 15-Sep:
>
> ===
>
> I postd this on 311s, but I'll post it here for
> those that don't go there:
>
> Since my car is currently in a position to play with
> this, I gave it a try
> to determine if there was a simple procedure to
> installing/removing the
> fuel pump. After all, they must have envisioned
> having to do this as part
> of regular maintenance at some point.
>
> What I found is this: First remove the nuts holding
> the fuel pump to the
> block. (Question for others out there, are there
> supposed to be lock
> washers on this? Mine did not have any, seems the
> studs are way too
> short, and any longer would REALLY make removal a
> royal pain.)
>
> Next, pull on the fuel pump till the stud flanges
> just clear the studs on
> the block, then you rotate the complete pump
> assembly just a bit. Either
> to where a line perpendicular to the top of the pump
> points to the 1:30 or
> the 10:30 position (if you could view it directly
> from the side of the
> engine block). The axis of rotation goes directly
> though the center of the
> bottom half of the fuel pump, side to side of the
> car/block.
>
> Then rotate the bottom half of the pump away from
> the block with the
> axis of rotation being perpendicular to the position
> you chose. That is
> if you rotated to the 1:30 position, you would
> rotate the bottom part of
> the pump's body with the axis going between the
> 10:30 and 4:30 points.
> (Conversely, top @ 10:30 axis is at 1:30/7:30.) The
> axis now goes
> through the UPPER half of the pump.
>
> I'm trying to describe something that will be very
> easy and almost
> intuitive
> ... once you rotate the fuel pump.
>
> I've done this both ways, and have NOT had to lift
> or move the motor at
> all.
>
> Re-installation is just as simple ( "Reversal of
> Removal" ), except that
> you first must make sure the lever that operates the
> pump will insert into
> the block and be above the portion of the crank that
> actuates it.
>
> HTH
> Enrique
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