If the pump is making a continuous sound, particularly if it is a rapid
chattering sound, then it isn't pumping fuel, just air. See if you can
jury-rig it to pump off the car from one container to another. If that
works OK then the pump is OK, it may be the pickup in the tank either rotted
off or blocked or the pipe from tank to pump is holed so the pump is just
sucking in air. You do have a decent level of fuel, don't you? You did
connect the pipes the right way round, didn't you?
PaulH.
http://freespace.virgin.net/paul.hunt1/
-----Original Message-----
From: RUN262JOHN@aol.com <RUN262JOHN@aol.com>
To: mgs@autox.team.net <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: 10 March 1999 23:58
Subject: fuel pubp question
>Greetings from Savannah, Georgia:
>
>I recently tried to start my 1980 B after parking it for about a month.
It
>will not start because there is no gas coming into the carb. yes i have
>gas.....then I found out that the fuel pump was not original...PO put on a
in
>line pump. So...I bought an orginial pump and installed it. I'm still not
>getting any gas at the carb. The pump is making a lawnmower sound but not
>getting any gas to the carb. This is the same problem the old nonorginal
pump
>was doing before replacing. What's wrong? Am I missing something?
>
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