Crash,
The fuel pump is the one that came with the car in 1960. During the
rebuild I was in the market for a rebuild kit for it and tried all the usual
suspects. At the time a rebuild kit for an AC Y-type pump was over 50 bucks! A
repro was only $35 at the time. What was that all about? These days the
rebuild kit is down to a more reasonable price. At the time I did not want to
spend 50 bucks for this kit. During one of my usual forays for parts I went to
an auto parts store here in San Bernardino that has been selling British car
parts for over 30 years and happened to mention that i was looking for a pump
rebuild kit. The lady that has run the store for these 30 years said to wait a
minute and disappeared into the back of the store. She reappeared a few
minutes later and handed me a cardboard box with no top and full of small
parts. She said it was a generic rebuild kit for my type of pump and I could
have it for the price on the box. On the side of the box in pencil it said
$7.95! She said that was the price in 1972 and no-one bought it since then so
just take it for that price. Wow! All the generic parts fit perfectly and I
have had no problems until the screws that hold the halves together loosened.
After retightening it did not leak. If it leaks again in the near future, I
will take your advice and add some Form a Gasket.
Mike Maclean Supercharged 60 Sprite
David Ramsey wrote:
> Mike, if your fuel pump is one of the Canadian repros you ain't done with it
> yet. Your only at step two (loctite the screws). Step three is to seal the
> diaphragm with form a gasket. Step four will be to throw the piece of junk
> as far as you can and get a real fuel pump for the car, I sugguest the NAPA
> electrical.
> Crash
> ps if you shorten the screws holding the pump together you can get a 1/4"
> drive socket on the nuts, but this will just make it easier when you get to
> step four.
>
> >tackled the gas leak. Tried for a couple
> >of hours to get at the mechanical fuel pump, I could have just
> >tightened the screws that hold the halves together and put everything
> >back, but figured I better do this right. So I removed the screws and
> >put some blue Locktite on them and replaced them. I don't want to be
> >typing this again in a few months. When I tried to remove the fuel pump
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