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46fordnut

07-27-2011 @ 12:52 PM

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still trying to figure this out ...no fuel get to the glass bowl on my pump. put new valves put new bowl seal (cork). and pump push rod moves well. i do have little less then half of a tank of gas. i was thinking i might just be the flex line on the fire wall . or dia inside pump . did not see any dri rot when i took pump apart. any other ideas? line from tank to wall copper coated steal. is from 2006.

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07-27-2011 @ 3:08 PM

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Have you substituted a known good pump? The smallest air leak will render a pump useless, even a pinhole will do it. Old flex lines can close up due to separation of the lining from the cover and act as a check valve. It is also possible that the pickup tube in the tank has fallen off. I've seen it happen. I'd place a container under the end of the line to the carb and apply air pressure to the tank at the filler neck to see if fuel is delivered. I have little faith in the sealing quality of old cork rings to the glass bowl. A thin coating of RTV silicone to the surface can often fix that. Usually, this type of problem is easy to solve. Either the pump is bad, or the line has an air leak, or is clogged. An air pressure test should tell you which it is.

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07-27-2011 @ 3:34 PM

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blew out fuel lines . tried filling carb bowl even tried to fill sed glass bowl still wont pick up fuel. replaced check valves in pump, put new cork seal on glass bowl. put temp rubber line where flex line should be and still nothing. have close to half a tank of fuel to sender out and measured the level. car ran until carb ran out of fuel. pump never picked up anything.

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07-27-2011 @ 4:49 PM

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As super said:

"Have you substituted a known good pump?"

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07-27-2011 @ 5:11 PM

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well i only have one pump . ill get a rebuild kit and go from there. if it does nothing ill replace flex line.

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07-27-2011 @ 6:28 PM

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if you put your finger over the inlet and turn the engine over do you feel pressure or vacuum or nothing???

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07-27-2011 @ 6:52 PM

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put finger over inlet with pump off of car very little if any vaccum.

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07-27-2011 @ 8:58 PM

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Airtex Fuel Pump #591 (AFP 591) - Can be found at NAPA, O'Rielly's and Auto Zone - $42.95

This, only if you want to run "wild".

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07-28-2011 @ 6:54 AM

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46fordnut,

Your last post in the other thread about this problem said that you were going to hook up your vacuum gauge to the input of the fuel pump.

Did you do this? Please post the results.

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i cant seem to find my vac gauge. would a compression gauge work on the out put side? if so how much should it read?

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