> All,
>
> OK.. this is odd.
>
> I go into the garage, and smell the powerful odor of fuel.
> Suspecting a fuel leak somewhere in the line, I go searching, only to find
> some gasoline pooled on the TOP of the manual fuel pump, with no sign of a
> leak any place else
> I cannot figure out how fuel could possibly find itself to the top of the
> fuel
> pump body, as most fluids tend to run downhill.
>
> My only theory is that the fuel is being drawn-up, against the force of
> gravity, through the holes that secure the circular top of the pump, to
> the
> main body.
>
> Has anyone ever experienced this?
>
Try tightening the six screws holding the fuel pump dome to the body. If
you can tighten them by a quarter turn or so, you have temporarily fixed
the problem. It happened to me a few years ago when I used gas that had
10% ethanol in it. Old rubber fuel parts really don't like it.
Greg G.
Osseo, MN
>
> Cheers,
>
> Guy D. Huggins
> 1965 Triumph TR4A
> CTC 63569LO
>
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