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Re: Can't Win For Losing... The Saga Continues!

To: Mike MacLean <macleans@earthlink.net>, spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Can't Win For Losing... The Saga Continues!
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 22:07:13 -0700
Sounds like Crash nailed it again...

Gerard

At 6:47 PM -0700 8/27/01, Mike MacLean wrote:
>Left  to pick up my son at school this afternoon in the Bugeye in 100
>degree temperature.  The Bugeye ran at about 195 to 200 degrees if I
>kept moving just as I predicted.  Got about half way there and the car
>just quit!  Acted like it was out of gas.  I didn't think so so.  I had
>stopped next to an orange grove, so I went and cut a stick off a tree to
>dip the tank as my gas gauge is a joke.  Tank is at least half full.
>Went to the engine compartment and looked at the clear plastic filter
>just after the mechanical fuel pump I just had apart yesterday and it
>was dry!  I tried to pump some fuel by pushing on the manual lever at
>the bottom of the pump.  It made noise like there was no gas to pump.
>Possibly something in the line between the tank and the pump or right at
>the pickup in the tank.  Later I will remove the tank line at the pump
>and blow air from my compressor into the line.  If I take the gas cap
>off, will this be enough to keep the tank from bulging when I do this?
>If that doesn't work, off comes the supercharger again to get at the
>fuel pump.  Oh well.
>Mike maculae Supercharged 60 Sprite
>

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