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Re: Replacement fuel pump

To: barneymg@juno.com
Subject: Re: Replacement fuel pump
From: britcars@juno.com
Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 15:17:57 EDT
On Thu, 15 May 1997 08:51:39 EDT barneymg@juno.com (Barney Gaylord)
writes:

>>Hmm, unless you have added a pressure regulator as well, you are 
>lucky. SU's are rated for a 1.5-3.5 psi pump, anything more blows past 
>the float needles and floods over. .....
>
>I must have heard about 100 people make this same statement, but I'm 
>beginning to think it's an old wives tale, and I'm attempting to 
>debunk it.  I've had this pump in service a long time now.  Started 
>out with stock brass float valves, then went to rubber tipped float 
>valves for a while, and have now been Grose Jets for five years.  I 
>run a fuel filter at the pump.  I've never had an overflow problem.
>
>Now I'm prepared to be flamed, but has anyone actually experienced 
>carburetor overflow caused by these pressures and not attributable to 
>worn float valves or dirt?
>
>Barney Gaylord
>1958 MGA

Yes, Yes a hundred times yes!    

Lawrie
British Sportscar Center

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