Stone56
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Vlad should be out and about then
Hippo
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They'll be home soon. As soon as they've finished digging holes in me lawn to get at all the nuts they buried last autumn.
In the dorm, after lights out, we made our own with pieces of paper and a glass on the lino floor.
Worked reasonably well!!
Can't beleeve some of the things people feel they have to buy ready made.
Can you not put one in the pipe coming from the tank to the pump? If there is a bit of flexible then you could just cut it and stick one in, no need to mount it on anything. (Don't forget to check the arrow for correct flow, easily missed.) SUs are actually quite tolerant of cack in the fuel, it just sits in the bottom of the float bowl.The NOS SU fuel pump rebuild kit arrived in its 1977 MOD packaging and I replaced all the parts in my pump.
I put it back on the car and after spinning over for a few seconds she burst intoflameslife. Yay...happy dance.
As I was able to put the pipework back exactly as before...... everything fits.
It has occured to me that a fuel-filter would be a good thing to put in, but there is very little room to insert one in the current layout. I have got some "bits" on the way to help form pipework into nice shapes so I may re-run all the piping from Pump-Out to Carb in and insert one in there somewhere.
I don't really want to put loads of nasty self-tappers through the bulkhead to secure any new/improved pipework.
Some securing clips for 6mm pipework that an be "ganged" on a single M6 bolt would be good. I shall go look.
I once put one in the fuel line of a kit car belonging to W that she was selling. I'd done a lot of work on the car. The new buyers came from Cornwall to pick it up. Once they'd gone I celebrated with a bit of wine and a meal.
Then at about 10 pm came a phone call, they had broken down about 20 miles away.
Poop, I couldn't drive as I had had a drink but luckily I still had recovery on it, so I got it, and them, recovered back to our place. (W was away on business.)
I had a quick, quiet chat with the recovery guy as he couldn't see anything wrong with it, he put the tail down on the ground, I got in it started it and drove it off.
So I told them I'd fix it and deliver it once fixed.
Then I fed them, gave them a bed and in the morning drove them to the bus station in Bournemouth before going off to work.
The fuel filter was partially blocked up with very fine rust. It would run, but not well at all.
I realised that it had come from the fuel tank which originally came from a Triumph Spitfire. It had been rusty with a few holes so I washed it out to prevent it catching fire and gave it to a member of my club to weld it up for me. I realised that by doing that a certain amount of surface rust had formed.
So I cured it by simply removing the filter! It ran fine like that.
So the time came to deliver it, I was going to drive it and W was going to follow in her car. I got about 100 yards down the road and it caught fire, under the bonnet.
I managed to put it out by throwing a few pints of water over it that I luckily had in a plastic jerrycan, put in the car in case of overheating!So it damaged the fibreglass bonnet and aluminium engine compartment side panels. It did NOT happen because of petrol, it was down to an old distributor cap and damp: condensation as it was early in the morning. So things shorted, sparks flew and plastic burnt. The insurance paid for the repair apart from a new dizzy cap and leads. But it took ages for the new bonnet to be made as the kit car manufacturer was not really doing much. It was an MGTF copy.
Did eventually deliver it without incident, to a couple of whom only the wife drove and the Cornwall village was so small few people had a garage, so it would have been garaged on top of the cliff/hill just outside it. Can't remember the name of it. She professed to be in love with it.
A year later it was on sale!!
Thort cars like that had a water separator in the fool filter. Do appreciate that if someone put a gallon or two in it wouldn't save it.
Had they had a falling out with someone?
Ditto @derwendolly ?
This is true, but I think the outlet of the tank might be under the boot floor and I am not sure such a delicate part ought to be so exposed. But I will look to see if there is anywhere suitable. I am told others remove the mechanical pump and fit a solid-state "Facet" pump on the rear subframe with a hidden switch so as to provide a disabling function.
Tank outlet in the boot and then should be a metal pipe running along under the car.
Electric pump fine but watch pressure as it can overcome the float valve and flood.
Maybe I can intercept the outlet pipe before the metal one under the car in the tunnel.
It seems to me that the solution to Dan's dilemma is to find a period correct SU electric pump. The low pressure ones are designed to work with carburettors that have a float and needle valve, unlike many of the modern pumps that are intended to work with fuel injectors that need a higher fuel pressure. They even have a strainer built into the pump mechanism too, if I remember correctly.
Sorry - edit that - it sounds like you already have, re-reading the material up above.
Sorry - edit that - it sounds like you already have, re-reading the material up above.
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From memory I think the subframe is in the wayMaybe I can intercept the outlet pipe before the metal one under the car in the tunnel.
Only a bolt holding the tank strap though and you can whip it out
Not with 7 gallons of Shell's finest in it I can't.Only a bolt holding the tank strap though and you can whip it out
Only used to hold 4 and a half gallonsNot with 7 gallons of Shell's finest in it I can't.
DD likde a coupla posts recently. WL, hmm. New job etc?
Re the Facet, we discussed this a bit when you were having the fuel pump woes. I was thinking more of a flexi behind the engine just before the pump.
You can always cut the metal pipe to put a flexi in, jubilee clips will hold it just fine. If you are worried about leaks you can put an olive on or near the end or run a ring of solder around it, then heat the flexi in hot water and shove it over that before securing it with a jubbly clip. Or you can flare the end if you have the tool. But honestly, I'd just use one, or if you prefer, two jubblys.
Obvs I have forgotten, but there must be a bit of flexi somewhere to stop engine movement cracking any solid pipe connecting tank to engine/pump/carb.
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