Item Subject: Electric Fuel Pump Cut-off Switch
That's just what Tigers need: ANOTHER reason for the fuel pump not to
work.
There's no stock cutoff. I have considered installing an emergency
cut off of this type. Lots of Fuel Injected cars have them, which you
could grab at a "strip it yourself" parts yard. I seem to remember
something about a cutoff on my wife's Sable wagon, located behind a
little door on the passenger side of the "wayback".
My Mom's Vega had an oil pressure cutoff for the electric pump. You
need oil pressure before the pump turns on, unless you install an
extra pushbutton switch to bypass the cutoff. Also, there might be
circumstances where you would rather risk trashing the bearings than
come to a halt right there (approaching train, etc.), and this
decision would be out of your hands. You will find these switches in
racer catalogs.
Stu
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Subject: Electric Fuel Pump Cut-off Switch
Author: Non-HP-owner-tigers (owner-tigers@triumph.cs.utah.edu) at
HP-ColSprings,shargw3
Date: 5/28/96 1:44 PM
I'm planning on replacing the snake's mechanical fuel pump with an
electric pump and I've got a question about the pump arrangement on
Tigers. My son's TR8 has an inertia switch which cuts off power to the
fuel pump upon heavy impact. I've also heard about switches that cut off
pump power when oil pressure goes to zero. Did Tigers come with any sort
of emergency cut-off switch? If not, have any of you installed one?
Roland
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