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fuel flow
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len47merc |
06-14-2021 @ 8:37 AM
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Please do not discount the simplest but what was to me anyway the most non-intuitive fix. Because I'm stubborn, bull-headed, egotistical, and wouldn't listen to the Senior advisors on this site I spent time and $$$'s to fix everything BUT removing the glass bowl and seal, cleaning the bowl and seat, installing a new seal and properly tightening it - as Kens 36 notes. Cost a buck maybe and 5-10 minutes of time when I finally swallowed my pride, accepted that something that simple maybe, just maybe (probably wouldn't though I thought at the time - bowl seemed tight to my calibrated fingers) could be the issue and performed the task. And the fuel starvation under load at speed (up hills, etc.), was resolved. Entirely.
Steve
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42wagon |
06-14-2021 @ 3:13 AM
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Tell us about the "liquid bladder" you have in the fuel tank.
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Kens 36 |
06-13-2021 @ 7:35 PM
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John, Make sure you have a new gasket, or one in good shape, on the glass fuel bowl. Overtightening the fuel bowl can also distort the gasket. Ken
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JohnA |
06-13-2021 @ 2:56 PM
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flexible line new. I'm thinking mesh may be clogged in pump at glass bowl. Thinking easy fix. Thanks Johna Real humid up here in Ontario Canada. Covid almost under control
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mfirth |
06-13-2021 @ 1:54 PM
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The fuel pump may be bad, but also make sure there is no leakage at "the glass bowl". If you have a flexable fuel line, they can de laminate & collapse inside. Hope this helps . mike
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JohnA |
06-13-2021 @ 12:14 PM
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On my 1948 ford 2dr sedan, stock 239, when removing fuel line from fuel pump to carb very little fuel comes out of line, shouldn't their be a spray of fuel, like theirs no pressure. Car has been stalling lately, like lack of fuel. I will check glass fuel bowl, sometimes the screen gets pluged. Sometimes I think my liquid bladder in gas tank starting to break down?? which was done 20 years ago, I use high test gas so not much Ethanol.
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