Anyone remember this post I made in the begining of the summer? Well, it
happened again last night... WTF? I removed the disks, freed' them up and
all was well until I snapped the elbow off tightening everything back up.
So what is going on with the fuel nowadays? My tank isn't sloshed with
sealer, so it's not being eaten and re-deposited in the check valves... I
buy Mobil gasoline (not a plug or demerit, there is only one gas station in
town).
Is anyone else seeing this?
Blair
----- Original Message -----
From: "Blair J. Weiss" <blair@ifd.mv.com>
To: "Dave and Liz DuBois" <ddubois@sinclair.net>; <mg-t@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 9:24 PM
Subject: Re: TD Fuel Pump
> Prize goes to Dave! The two check valve disks were stuck. Thanks to
> everyone for their input.... the suggestions about stabil causing grud are
> disturbing, considering, the primary use for stabil is for storage of
> gasoline... now the big question... what do I drive to work tommorow... a
> MG or the Ducati? :)
>
>
> Blair
> '53 TD
> '78 B
> '80 B
> '01 Ducati 748
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave and Liz DuBois" <ddubois@sinclair.net>
> To: "Blair J. Weiss" <blair@ifd.mv.com>
> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 10:39 PM
> Subject: Re: TD Fuel Pump
>
>
>> Blair,
>>
>> I have attached a fuel delivery troubleshooting guide that may help you
>> isolate where the problem is. If the pump is running and no gas is
>> being pumped, the irst thing to look for is an air leak on the inlet
>> side of the pump. This would not necessarily result in gas leaking ot
>> if the leak is very close to the pump, as at that point the line is
>> higher than the top of the fuel tank. I recently had a pump that i had
>> restored for a client come back to me because it wouldn't pump fuel
>> (although the indications that he had was that the pump wouldn't run at
>> all). I found that the valve disks were stuck to the valve seats and
>> were corroded. When I asked the client if he had put anything in the
>> tank, he admitted to having used Stabil in the gas to keep it from going
>> bad over the winter. when I put a query out on the bulletin board, a
>> number of people said that they have had corrosion problems and valves
>> sticking in the fuel pump after having used Stabil in the gas. The
>> other possibility would be an inlet valve stuck open due to some debris
>> being caught in it.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Dave
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