Sounds like it could be blackage as likely as leakage, there is a fuel tank
filter or strainer as I understand it. The blockage can take a while to
build up and completely stop flow, helped byt the suction of the pump.
Just a thought.
Greg Lemon
54 BN1
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dr. Carl Rubino" <ruvino@ripnet.com>
To: "healeylist" <healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2004 10:18 AM
Subject: fuel pump problems
> OK-another long story.
>
> Out for a cruise and fuel pump starts clicking incessantly-finally
> stops-replaced with temporary to get home.
> Temp clicks incessantly-can still drive car
>
> Replace fuel pump with new bellow type stewart warner-install new fuel
filter
> in line.
> Check fuel flow and note air bubbles in gas
>
> Replace all rubber hoses including short one from tank to steel pipe
(pretty
> bad shape and would have blown on me in the not to distant future)-new
clamps
>
> Runs well for 1/2 hr then stops cold. Usual procedure bang it with
something
> heavy-starts-running incessantly-dies on the way home-replaced with temp
again
> and it runs incessantly-put new one back in the car and it still runs
> incessantly
>
> I assume I have a on/off (mostly on) air leak someplace-not in rubber
hoses
> and no evidence underneath the car
>
> As far as I can tell (getting to old to get totally under the car) the
steel
> fuel pipe is all one piece so no fittings to worry about
>
> microscopic hole in the steel line? should this be replaced? it's
> approximately 15 years old.
>
> It's been a cool spring and early summer here in the Ottawa Valley (E.
Ontario
> Canada)-that and a torn achilles tendon has limited my driving time. With
a
> forecast for a good August I would like to solve this problem close to
home
> rather than head out for parts unknown. I am really getting tired of
removing
> the left side seat pan-has anybody tried velcro for it?
>
> Carl
> BN-4(L)
> 1957
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