Robert:-
I'm not sure what modification would be necessary on a B since my
experience is with an A, but there actually should be little or none.
Just get four small hose clamps and about a foot of 5/16 rubber fuel
line. Cut the rubber fuel line in half and clamp the two pieces to
either end to the fuel pump. You might not find the fuel pump under the
Facet name-- just ask for a generic electric fuel pump and someone should
show you a small squarish item. You'll probably be better off physically
going into the store to see what they have, the counter people in car
parts stores are often "know-it-all" types who really don't understand
what you are doing and are negative about it just to get you off the
phone. In any case, you can clamp the other end of the hoses over either
end of the steel fuel lines without major modification, just make sure
the pump is pumping in the right direction and you don't crimp the hoses
when they are installed. You will have to find a way to hold the pump in
place, which might mean drilling a couple of holes to mount it. If I
remember my college days correctly, such a job might end up being done
with baling wire or duct tape until finals were over and I could go home
and steal some of Dad's tools.
Good luck!
David Littlefield
Houston, TX
On Mon, 17 Mar 1997 23:30:43 -0800 (PST) Robert William Daugherty
<n9682696@janice.cc.wwu.edu> writes:
> I guess I will try and come forward again since this is a
>thread
>that currently relates to me. I am a lurker and a newbie. I tried
>writing to the list a couple of weeks ago but I have no clue if it
>made
>it. I am skeptical that this message will make it.
> Last week I accelerated hard around a corner. After getting
>off
>the accelerator my baby started running poorly. I pulled into a
>parking
>lot. I idled only slitly rough. When I tried to accelerate, it would
>
>lose power and almost stall. I was able to make it to a safe parking
>lot, that is one that I have a permit to park in. After turning off
>the
>car and checking everything I could think of, the beast decided to
>play
>finicky and not start at all. I double checked to see if I was
>getting
>fuel and sure enough I wasn't. So I stuck my head in the trunk and
>couldn't hear my fuel pump like I usually can. Got under the car and
>gave it a few wacks, still didn't work. It is raining and about 40
>degrees F, so I get back under and bet the f^(k out of the fuel pump,
>still nothing.
> Tomorrow I will check to see if I am getting electricity to
>it,
>but I don't think this is problem. I checked all the fuses and
>everything else on the car is getting power. I think it will need
>replacing. My father, the VW mechanic, suggested the Facet, square
>fuel
>pump. So today I call most of the big parts stores, i.e., Schucks,
>NAPA,
>Al's. They all try to sell me an SU fuel pump at anywhere from $80 to
>
>$210. They say they don't know of Facet and any universal fuel pump
>will
>require modifications.
> Are there modifications? If so, what? Where do I get a Facet
>
>fuel pump?, and soon, I need to make it to the other side of the state
>
>this coming up weekend. Are there any other reliable, but cheap fuel
>pumps?, after all I am a college student (no money).
> Thanks for any help you can offer me. That is if this letter
>even makes it to the list. I am part of the new generation and I
>still
>really don't understand these contraptions called computers, thats not
>to
>say I don't appreciate them.
>
>Robert Daugherty
>Bellingham, Wa.
>1978 MGB (Same age as me)
>
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