Re: Re: Fuel Filters
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<font size="2"><font size="3">Graham:
There's a LOT of past postings to this list about "fuel tap" inits searchable
Yahoogroups Archives(Unfortunately, that old eScribe archives service still mentioned at the bottom of all postings to the List has long since "gone where the woodbine twineth" andnow seems deader than Caesar's dog).M</font></font><font size="2"><font size="3">y own earlier postings on the topic can be found
here and
here(in the context of a handy index to tech articles in the Club Newsletters 2001-2005 that I can't now even remember compiling back during my Club Webmaster daze).</font></font>
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<font size="2"><font size="3">If memory serves, the general wisdomon the fuel tap boils down to this: Don't touch that lever...ever!If you even
look at it funny it'll start leaking. The problem is usually the little roundflow-directing fiber three-holedthingee that's held behind the tap's metal faceplate, which in turn is held in place by acirclip/spring washer doodad. Regrettably, these fiber three-holedthingees are highly prone to losing their sealif disturbed in the least, with the result that gas begins dripping out past the faceplate. Last I heard, Hugh Gordon did not stock thesefiber three-holed thingees, only the complete tap assemblies(though this may have changed, so you might want to ask). Otherwise, I do recall JohnFriese mentioning </font></font><font size="2"><font size="3">having found a source for justthe fiber thingees in
this postingfrom 2002, so he may be able to help. </font></font>
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<font size="2"><font size="3">As for my own Amphi,when I first got it back in '95 Iquickly discovered that the fuel tap leaked.Lacking any source of fiber thingees back then, I simply sealed up the leaking faceplate with JB Weld epoxy, and it held for years and years, until Billy Syx of
East Coast Amphicar replaced my "temporary fix" with a straight-out sort of tap he'd developed, together with a standard see-through inline fuel filter between the tap and the magnetic cutoff switch. Of course, without the original fuel tap's little "snorkel" rising just above the rusty muck in the bottom of the fuel tank, this</font></font><font size="2"><font size="3"> new straight-out setup was at first prone to clogging and I had some fuel starvation problems at higher sustained speeds (if an Amphicar can indeed be said to have such a thing), until, that is,on David Chapman's suggestion at Celina, I slapped a couple of large flat magnetson the bottom of the fuel tank to lurethe mostly-rust-particulate (i.e. iron) away fromthe outlet. Since then, no problems.</font></font>
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<font size="2"><font size="3">But anyhow, good luck!</font></font>
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Subject: Re: [amphicar-lovers] Re: Fuel Filters
Anyone know how to fix fuel reserve tank switch that leaks from shaft/lever entry point
Graham R
PS Das Boot you out there?</font>
