Oxygenated fuel, Aye?
Well, I'm in the republik of Kalifornia, and yup.....that's what we use
here.
So they're talking about this on FOT as well. What's the concensus of the
racing scene, Irv? Swap out your fuel system rubber a lot?
The rest of my system is gates. Are you guys seeing failures even on
mainstream products like that?
-jeffrey
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Irv Korey wrote:
> At 10:54 AM 8/1/02 -0700, Jeffrey J. Barteet wrote:
>
> >Another lister mentioned his fuel pump rebuild kit from Moss had some
> >rubber bits that reacted to the gasoline he was using.
> >
> >Last week, I pulled out my '62 TR4 for a drive and was looking under the
> >hood as it idled after checking the fluids, and noticed I had a pretty
> >good leak coming from the fuel pump. I'm guessing the diaphram ruptured.
> >
> >What makes this mildly irritating was this pump was rebuild with a Moss
> >kit a couple of years ago. It worked faultlessly until last weekend.
>
> This is a common problem in areas where there is oxygenated fuel designed
> to reduce emissions. And it is not just a Moss problem. I had 2 Stewart
> Warner diaphragm style electric fuel pumps fail because of this, the 2nd
> pump lasted only 6 months. And while this discussion is going on on this
> list, the TRiumph racers list is discussing fuel leaks in their enclosed
> trailers from rubber fuel lines failing and filling their trailers with
> gas. We need to be paying attention, this is a serious threat.
>
> Irv Korey
> 74 TR6 CF22767U
> 63 TR4 #58 (yippee, didn't come in last at Mid Ohio)
> Highland Park, IL
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