Ever since I had a fuel problem in Celina about 8 years ago, I have had a
fuel hose clamped directly to the fuel outlet at the bottom of the tank which
then leads to a fuel filter and then to the electric on off "thingee."
Somehow, I feel deprived, as my on off deal has never leaked. I then go a an
electric fuel pump of 2-1/2 - 4 lbs pressure right below the tank and the
mechanical pump aft is out of the loop. My system has been wonderful. The only
problem I have had was recently when the car wouldn't start. I traced it back
item by item and finally tapped the carb to see if the inlet valve was stuck
and bingo - after checking everything else, that was the problem !
In a message dated 1/12/2009 4:30:55 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
writes:
I never had much joy from that leaks-from-new-if you-ever-use-it
original-style fuel tap. Even after I'd replaced the little
circlip-and-faceplate-secured fiber washer thingee that controls
on-off-reserve flow, it still had a weepy and persistent sort of leak
that made me squint my eyes a bit every time I started the engine,
half-expecting to soon see the Halls of Valhalla. So, I just sealed up
the unit in its "on" postintion with some JBWeld epoxy daubed over the
faceplate as a temporary fix that held just fine for over a decade.
Eventually Billy Syx of East Coast Amphicar (website:
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http://www.amphicar.net/eca)_ (
http://www.amphicar.net/eca)) rigged me up a
sort of straight-out-of-the
tank setup made from copper tubing and a suitable securing nut, adding
an inline fuel filter just before that magnetically-operated fuel
shutoff doodad.
Since then, Billy's setup has been working fine, except to say that the
first couple of weeks a LOT of the tank crud, rust and so forth would
head straight into the fuel line, causing some fuel starvation issues
cured by numerous blow-throughs and filter swaps on the road to Celina
that year. You see, the original taps also have two little snorkel pipe
things, a higher one for "on" with a lower one for "reserve," both of
which draw fuel from above the Cruds Layer (Hey! My new porn name!) at
the very bottom of the tank, which is where my fuels is drwan from now.
Time, and a subsequent tip from David Chapman at Celina made for a
trouble-free ride homewards: that is, "Why don't you slap a great filthy
magnet on the bottom of the tank to attract and hold the rust particles
away from the fuel tap, you simple-minded fake-cheese-eating colonial."
And that's my story.
Hyphen-happy,
Bilgey
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:15 am, Tedredamphi wrote:
Quote:
> What are people using as a replacement for the fuel tap/shutoff
> assembly on bottom of the fuel tank. Looks like Gordon Imports want
> $175 plus a core.
> Ted Matthews
>
>
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