By the way - my experience is usually bad fuel pumps are caused by
crud / rust in the tank which then overloads the pump over time and
burns it out. When you replace the pump, then float jets get stuck
open because the new strong pump is pumping crud into your float
chambers, causing sticky jets causing fuel overflow.
You should drain and thoroughly wash out your gas tank. Put an inline
fuel filter as well.
Alan
On 3/9/09, kaynmike.bham@juno.com <kaynmike.bham@juno.com> wrote:
> (I'm the guy with the blown head gasket-no I'm still building courage to
> take the head off -almost there.) My son's AN5 has a healthy fuel leak at
> the back carb. Details: new fuel pump and all fuel delivery hoses a couple
> of weeks ago. Put 20-30- miles on the job, everything looked / felt
> great.Parked it and yesterday jumped in, fired (uummmm-a poor choice of
> words) it up and after a few seconds running, it died. A cursory
> investigation reveald a flowing out of the rear carb overflow pipe. We
> figured it was something stuck in the float chamber, so we popped the top
> off the bowl and everything looked good to us small -amounts of very fine
> sediment in the bottom of the bowl-nothing too weird. Jiggled the carb and
> intoned threatening words directed toward the gods of carb. Put it back
> together, fired right up and for a few seconds- no problem. Then the deluge
> returned. Substantial amounts of gas on the floor. Shut 'er down. He's edgy
> as the sun is coming out. Any ideas?
> This list is fantastic. Mike Gougeon 56BN2 (AN5)
>
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Alan
'52 A90
'53 BN1
'64 BJ8
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