I was chasing down some gremlins more than a year ago. One of the things I
needed to eliminate was fuel tank debris. I ran a fuel line from a clean
plastic jug directly into the fuel pump, bypassing the filter alltogether. I
cut
a tight fitting hole into the screw top lid of the jug, and ran the fuel
line to
the bottom of the jug. Then set the jug into the engine bay. I
gently drove the
car around the neighborhood, and still had my problems,
ruling out the fuel
tank/lines being the source of the problem. (see pic)
http://fototime.com/FBA2A64626F846A/orig.jpg
Later, I discovered the source
of that problem to be a kinked fuel hose from the
(new) carburator bowl to
the nozzle. (see pic)
http://fototime.com/D0862E3BF0809C7/orig.jpg
Keith
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From: Paul Courson <cour.jpeg@gmail.com>
To:
John F Sandhoff <sandhoff@csus.edu>
Cc: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
Sent:
Thu, April 26, 2012 3:52:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Roadsters] Starting car
Three of
us rescued a factory '68 Solex from a backyard in
Pennsylvania that had been
there quite a while.
For some reason, we vowed we were going to DRIVE it out
of there. So
we took with us a set of good tires/wheels, brake parts, a
battery, a
can of fresh gasoline, and headed to the seller's home about 100
miles
away.
We not only got it out of the back yard, but we really did get it
running, and we were about a mile from the seller's house when it quit
the
first time. Changed the filter, all full of sludge. Got a half
mile out of
the next filter.
Hmm. Time for a work-around.
Gas tank was so rusted up we
had to take our 5 gal "jerry" can, tuck
it behind the passenger seat, and run
a gas line from the nozzle of
the tank through a hole in the floorboard to the
fuel pump inlet. Got
us all the way home to Maryland. True story.
On
Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 5:27 PM, John F Sandhoff <sandhoff@csus.edu> wrote:
>>
...How do I start the car without using the fuel tank.
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