The rear part of the exhaust can reach temperatures of above 50-100C,
depending on weather conditions and driving conditions. Now couple that to
already prewarmed air (from the engine compartment and the rest of the
exhaust and you'll get a nice and cosy environment for your pump. May well
help to move the pump.
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> From: jonmac[SMTP:jonmac@ndirect.co.uk]
> Reply To: jonmac
> Sent: Sunday, April 25, 1999 9:15 PM
> To: 2000- Register
> Cc: Triumphs List
> Subject: Aha !
>
> Matters fuel injection started to receive my earnest investigations today
> -
> cossetted in "Canley Girl's" boot (trunk). There seem to be some owners
> who
> feel moving the fuel pump to the RH side well is a cooler location. Fact
> or
> fiction? Yes, I know on the LH side it is right above the exhaust rear box
> but was exhaust heat such a perennial problem? I don't recall that it was
> but maybe those brain cells have gone for ever.
> Anyway, I think one DPO thought it was, because what do I find but 12
> 5/16th
> holes drilled in a neatish pattern in the floor just aft of the pump.
> Whether this was to let cool air in, hot or cold water spray in or out -
> or
> just a mobile home for adventurous maggots is open to some conjecture.
>
> John Mac
>
> Book 1: http://www.toolbox.ndirect.co.uk/triumphbook
> Book 2: http://www.toolbox.ndirect.co.uk/crocus
> Triumph Over Triumph magazine: http://www.cyberware.co.uk/~chips11
>
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