The fuel pump over the right muffler has the following advantages:
1. When the points stick, the access door allows you to
bang of the pump with an appropriate abject to free the
points and the pumps starts working again. Nothing
like bombing down the highway, feel the car run out of
gas, reach around and bang the pump, and away you
go again. Done properly you shouldn't lose more than
5 mph.
The replacement pump with electronic point eliminates
the fun or the original.
2. Having the pump over the muffler is great because when
it does leak, the sheet of yellow flame in your rear view
mirror makes a great leak detector.
The MK II Tigers move the pump into the wheel well of the trunk
where the Alpine spare stood up. A bracket similar to the holding
the pump above the muffler was used to hold the pump in the
well.
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