Sounds like Crash nailed it again...
Gerard
At 6:47 PM -0700 8/27/01, Mike MacLean wrote:
>Left to pick up my son at school this afternoon in the Bugeye in 100
>degree temperature. The Bugeye ran at about 195 to 200 degrees if I
>kept moving just as I predicted. Got about half way there and the car
>just quit! Acted like it was out of gas. I didn't think so so. I had
>stopped next to an orange grove, so I went and cut a stick off a tree to
>dip the tank as my gas gauge is a joke. Tank is at least half full.
>Went to the engine compartment and looked at the clear plastic filter
>just after the mechanical fuel pump I just had apart yesterday and it
>was dry! I tried to pump some fuel by pushing on the manual lever at
>the bottom of the pump. It made noise like there was no gas to pump.
>Possibly something in the line between the tank and the pump or right at
>the pickup in the tank. Later I will remove the tank line at the pump
>and blow air from my compressor into the line. If I take the gas cap
>off, will this be enough to keep the tank from bulging when I do this?
>If that doesn't work, off comes the supercharger again to get at the
>fuel pump. Oh well.
>Mike maculae Supercharged 60 Sprite
>
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