Peter,
Three words: Electric Fuel Pump!
Joe
Peter Ficklin wrote:
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> Spit Squadron Pilots,
> Anybody else out there have problems with an oil leak in their fuel
> pump? I bring this up to warn others, perhaps, of some potential
> problems. Currently under restoration, my '63 only gets started once or
> twice a month for 15 to 20 minutes or so, since the engine rebuild a
> couple of years ago. I've had a chronic oil leak, that is worse only
> after it runs awhile. I finally took the time to track it down, and
> it's from the fuel pump. The repro fuel pump from TRF has a hole
> drilled through the pump body to accept a friction fit shaft to hold the
> acutator lever (cam to diaphragm) on it. At higher RPMs this shaft has
> loosened and worked it's way out the hole, leaving a hole in the fuel
> pump for oil to splash from the crankcase to the exterior of the
> engine. The original fuel pump had an "internal" shaft, which was
> accessed by removing the pump and from the gasket face. Anybody run
> into this, and how did you fix it, short of a new/better pump?
>
> thanks much, to long already...
> Peter Ficklin
> '63 7 '68 Spits
> Fresno, CA
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