Hi Chuck:
My experience says that it's good to be paranoid about electric fuel pumps.
The worst of it was a few years ago in a borrowed MGB, immobilized on the
side of a elevated section of I-5 in East LA. Not fun, from the 80 mph
traffic roaring along inches from the left side door (I got out of the car
and climbed up on the retaining wall to await help, had visions of being
pulverized by a tractor trailer....), to the incredible shaking and bouncing
that occurs on elevated freeways (who knew they moved up and down that
much?), to the thoughts of being a sitting duck for some of the
neighborhood's less thoughtful citizens........
All this because some little bit of debris shut the fuel pump down.
&^%$#@ SU fuel pumps, anyway. I think I would opt for one of those dual
pumps that are made for racing use.
Be prepared!
Doug Ingram
Victoria BC
1958 Frogeye (with good old AC mechanical pump)
AN5L/636
-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Ciaffone <chuckc@ibm.net>
To: spridget list <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: Thursday, May 06, 1999 8:41 AM
Subject: 72 Fuel Pump
>Getting paranoid in my old age, I guess, but today
>I yanked the fuel pump to check it out. Wasn't doing
>anything bad, you understand, just been in there a while.
>
>This pump looks nothing like the pumps you see in catalogs.
>It is boxy rather than cylindrical, and the only thing
>that look at all removable is the diode that screws to the top
>of the box. Just a box with hose fittings on either side.
>
>Sooo ... looks not to be rebuildable. I'll probably put
>it back on for now, but:
>
>1. Is this a standard part?
>2. Will the Moss-listed replacement pump bee the same and mount
> the same? This pump mounts on two studs, secured with
> hex nuts (1/2" box wrench), onto a rubber mounting
> base.
>3. Should I worry at all before it stops working, or do fuel
> pumps go gradually with lots of warning?
>
>In short, since it seems to work ok now, should I bother to
>find a replacement before it stops working?
>
>Chuck (the Paranoia King) Ciaffone
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