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Re: [TR] TR4 Fuel Line fittings at Fuel Pump

To: <wbeech@flash.net>
Subject: Re: [TR] TR4 Fuel Line fittings at Fuel Pump
From: "Jeff" <fishplate@charter.net>
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 08:51:00 -0400
> If you put an elect pump ahead of the orig pump, will fuel flow through an
> inoperable original pump.  I would seem this would eliminate the need for
> excessive plumbing.

Depends on how it's failed, but it's likely it would, unless a one-way valve 
is jammed shut.  Be aware that if the failure is due to a diaphragm rupture, 
you ~may~ pump fuel into the crankcase.  This would be a bad thing.

I use my electric pump only rarely, as I installed it to solve a problem. 
Turns out I had a completely different problem.  If I planned to use it 
regularly, I think I'd opt for the complicated plumbing, or make the lines 
easy to swap.

Jeff Scarbrough
Corrosion Acres, Ga. 

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