You may have read my fuel delivery note of last weekend. After describing fuel
delivery and pump running on I got several really good suggestions to remedy
the problem.
I was reluctant to pull the tank right of the bat so I installed a length of
rubber hose to the fitting on the tank and blew hard. The theory being that if
the filter/sock is plugged not much of my air would get through. Well it made
the same loud sound as if I was blowing into a bowl of water so I concluded
that wasn't the problem. I then removed the steel line from tank to pumb-blew
it out-checked it with soap and water. It was fine so I re-installed it and
ran all new rubber hoses-still the pump was running all the time, air was
obviously getting in.
Now remember I had just installed a new pump when this problem started. So I
took the fittings of the pump and lined them with plumbers teflon tape and
suddenly no air leak and no running on of pump. Enough for one day.
Next day I installed a pressure regulator just before the carbs-nice looking
chrome thing with an adjustment on it. Fired up the car and it ran for 30 secs
then died. Oh God! I thought I had the pump problem solved-the new pump must
be bad.
by now I am getting very scientific-if the car died did it do so because the
pump wasn't pumping or because of something else. Disconnected the line at the
carb BEFORE the new regulator turned the key and lots of gas-disconnnected the
line AFTER the regulator and no gas-damn regulator was faulty.
So because I panicked and thought about the worst case scenario instead of the
KISS principal I spent two days frigging around when all I needed was 10 cents
worth of plumbers tape.
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