As for the hundreds of thousands out there now, I'd have to say that
"most" of them are probably fine in terms of ethanol compatibility and
the older the better. When I got the '67 redcar ten or twelve years ago,
it had what appeared to be the original on it. When it died it didn't
leak - the points just gave out. I had four more in the binand it was
easier to swap out than rebuild, so I took one from the XJ6 stash and
threw it in. It's been running fine every day for the past two or three
years, no prob with ethanol. The two in the XJ don't show any trouble
other than me not finding a suitable groundand they were new eight years
ago.
However, we've had a fair amount of customers that have had them
replaced over the past few yearsthey have been problems, so my guess is
that at some point Burlen changed materials in the wrong direction. I'm
glad they're addressing the problem - it's not like classic cars aren't
their prime market or anything like that. <;^)
Regarding compatibility between cars, Id have to say that it's more a
matter of plumbing and mounting than anything else.
Glenn
On 8/8/2013 11:00 AM, mgs-request@autox.team.net wrote:
> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2013 10:56:06 +0100
> From: "PaulHunt73"<paulhunt73@virginmedia.com>
> To: "Peter Schauss"<rpschauss@gmail.com>,<mgs@autox.team.net>
> Subject: Re: [Mgs] SU fuel pump availability
> Message-ID: <303D7BDB4CA54EC6B22CB0106366D5A6@paul>
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> It's a bit garbled but the response I got from Burlen is that they have
> supplied 200+ back orders this week and will have cleared them by the end of
> August. This is following a coil problem last year as well as with
> diaphragms and ethanol more recently, the latter using a new material now.
> Doesn't bode well for the hundreds of thousands of existing pumps out there!
>
> PaulH.
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