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RE: Starting a long dead Datsun, temp fix

To: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: Starting a long dead Datsun, temp fix
From: racerY@comcast.net
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 03:54:52 +0000
If'n you do that,
make sure the return line isn't still pumping back to the tank!

I started the '69 that way, and 5 minutes later, it had burned 5 gallons of 
fuel.

And the tank was leaking from the cap...

It was funny after I cleaned up the mess...

Toby


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Eric Johnson <snakeranch2@yahoo.com>
> I milked a 70 2000 home one time this way. Figured
> that gas tank was too gummed up and lines were
> clogged. Get six feet of fuel line and stick it in a
> gas can on the floor board, behind seat or where ever.
> plumb it up to the "in" on the fuel pump. do the ether
> as stated earlier to get the initial fire. might take
> a couple of times with the magic stuff to get the pump
> to pump from your gas can. might work long enough to
> get on the trailer, wouldnt recomend much more than
> that.




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