Hi Dave
For a blanking plate get a gasket and a piece of 10swg (3mm) steel plate
and cut this to the shape of the gasket drill 2 holes 21/64" (clearance for
5/16" bolts) in the plate apply some paint to the outside and some sealer to
both sides of the gasket and bolt on with suitable length bolts (measure how
much sticks through the pump body and find some that stick through the plate
by the same amount, or take a hacksaw to the original bolts).
Graham.
----- Original Message -----
From: D.T.Gebhard <kimkell@decaturnet.com>
To: Peter Ficklin <pficklin@qnis.net>; <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 3:19 PM
Subject: Re: fuel pump leaks oil... (med. longish)
>
> I've replaced mine with an electric pump...now I'm
> looking for a source of a blanking kit.Any help?
> Dave Gebhard
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Peter Ficklin <pficklin@qnis.net>
> To: <spitfires@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 2:49 PM
> Subject: fuel pump leaks oil... (med. longish)
>
>
>
> Spit Squadron Pilots,
> Anybody else out there have problems with an oil leak
> in their fuel
> pump? I bring this up to warn others, perhaps, of some
> potential
> problems. Currently under restoration, my '63 only
> gets started once or
> twice a month for 15 to 20 minutes or so, since the
> engine rebuild a
> couple of years ago. I've had a chronic oil leak, that
> is worse only
> after it runs awhile. I finally took the time to track
> it down, and
> it's from the fuel pump. The repro fuel pump from TRF
> has a hole
> drilled through the pump body to accept a friction fit
> shaft to hold the
> acutator lever (cam to diaphragm) on it. At higher
> RPMs this shaft has
> loosened and worked it's way out the hole, leaving a
> hole in the fuel
> pump for oil to splash from the crankcase to the
> exterior of the
> engine. The original fuel pump had an "internal"
> shaft, which was
> accessed by removing the pump and from the gasket face.
> Anybody run
> into this, and how did you fix it, short of a
> new/better pump?
>
> thanks much, to long already...
> Peter Ficklin
> '63 7 '68 Spits
> Fresno, CA
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