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Re: [Roadsters] --> Re: --> fuel pump flow "reversed"?

To: Tim <tputland@charter.net>
Subject: Re: [Roadsters] --> Re: --> fuel pump flow "reversed"?
From: "RWM (Out of the Office)" <RWM@RWMann.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 17:18:51 -0400
  There ya go!  Onward and faster.



On 7/24/2010 4:53 PM, Tim wrote:
> When working the arm of both NOS 1600 fuel pumps, I could feel air coming out 
>of the correctly marked fitting. This just happened to correspond to the 
>intake fitting on the pump I removed from the car.
>
> If the top is rotated 180 degrees, the arrows are not pointing at anything. 
>As it was when it came out of the box, the arrows WERE correct, just opposite 
>how all my other (used) pumps were marked.
>
> I opened up one of the new pumps, reversed in the interior valves, and the 
>pumps works like the one removed from the car.
>
> Nothing like something unexpected to further confuse someone as clueless as I 
>am!!!!!!
>
> Tim
>
>
> ---- "RWM (Out of the Office)"<RWM@RWMann.com>  wrote:
>
> =============
>    Is it possible that the valve body and top cover was reversed/rotated
> 180 degrees?
>
> May want to check the actual valve direction/operation.
>
> - Bob Mann, '68 2000 Solex
>
>
> On 7/24/2010 2:00 PM, Tim wrote:
>> I am in the process of installing a Nissan (NOS??) fuel pump. The flow 
>indicating arrows are opposite of the pump I removed from the car.
>>
>> Can I reverse the flow to match what the old pump had by swapping the valves 
>that are inside the pump? Or should I just run the fuel lines to what exists 
>on the new pump?
>>
>> tim
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