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Re: Fuel Pump pressure

To: "Spit Elist" <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Fuel Pump pressure
From: "Ken" <sdspitfire@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 07:16:18 -0700
Thanks, Nolan,

I'm going to try fuel in a gravity feed bottle today, eliminate the fuel
pump entirely.

> The Paul Harvey "rest of the story" is that many of the replacement
> mechanical fuel pumps produce too much fuel pressure for these
> carburetors.  They produces pressures of 4-7 psi, which is fine for a
> Japanese or American carburetor, but way too much for an LBC.  Using an
> inline pressure regulator has solved the running problems of many an
> LBC, including my own.

Where did you get the regulator ?

Ted Schumacher also had a good idea, check to see if the distributor advance
mechanism is hanging up.

Very frustrating !

Ken C




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