Sorry,
The actor in the scene you mentioned was Eli Wallach.
Ken Spurling
68 16cL
At 06:31 PM 3/24/01 -0800, Pam & Paul Bauman wrote:
>Ever get the feeling your life is a movie? Today, I thought I was in The
>Good, The Bad and the Ugly. Remember that scene from the movie where Clint
>Eastwood takes apart several guns to get the parts for the one he wants? Now
>think roadster fuel pumps.
>
>Before I installed the new pump, I saw that the top cover had the 'in' and
>'out' arrows pointing at the wrong connections. since the pump was laid out
>exactly the same as the old one, I figured the top was on wrong.
>
>Wrong!
>
>This pump took fuel in the wrong way. I found this out when I got everything
>back together, pulled the coil wire and had Pam crank quickly a few times to
>see if I could hear any strange noises. Hearing none, I stuck the inlet hose
>into a jar of gas and we turned it over. The pump started blowing bubbles!
>
>I tried to line up the 'out' side of the pump properly, but could I could
>not. The one-way valves inside the pump only go in--you guessed it--one way.
>I couldn't just flip the in side for the out side. I ended up using the
>bottom half of the new pump with it's new pivot shaft and follower and mated
>it to the old upper half with it's valves and fittings oriented correctly.
>Whew again!
>
>If I don't see a pool of gas under the car tomorrow morning, Pam and I are
>taking that drive up the coast!
>
>Posted pics at Photopoint of the pump differences.
>
>Paul Bauman
>Westminster, CA
>67 1600
>http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=881168&a=6499541&f=0
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